From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:05:02 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87twwdm40x.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87r3rhoexe.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429398328 7998 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 23:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:05:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 01:05:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjbnb-0007jZ-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjbna-0007zy-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbnX-0007zi-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbnS-0006oq-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbnS-0006o6-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbnQ-0007dL-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:05:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eSuA0HYmQBGCANopebb9paZsr0w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185642 Archived-At: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:11:20 -0700 raman wrote: r> Another valuable filtering capability would be to group and filter by r> "bundles" e.g. the large collection o f"helm-", "copany-" etc r> could collapse into a single "bundle" that could be expanded and collapsed. Who would define these bundles, maintain their definitions, pin packages to each others, and test them to ensure they are not broken? Or do you mean simply everything that begins with "helm-" is in the helm bundle? I don't think that's very useful, you'd end up installing a boatload of useless packages. Ted