From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can list-packages be set up to show latest github emacs packages? Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:53:24 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wp2z72zv.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <3f62e436-87d6-485e-aea8-7e403a9db901@googlegroups.com> <87h8u78kxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bmkc9aar.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510250128 32733 195.159.176.226 (9 Nov 2017 17:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 17:55:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 09 18:55:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eCr2v-0008Fn-Oh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCr33-0003zO-95 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:55:29 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.135.147 with SMTP id j141mr777264wmd.11.1510250004873; Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:53:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!b9no1009485wmh.0!news-out.google.com!l202ni9396wmd.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net FA6i46zAA8Rb6V7BfGwZDGrDpLiqCLi2j6gtGFkCAqo/VzVeWkDA/3gsPxoahqAryfnEvKrPfnLMW7mI2VZL0Q== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 17:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="rPlJF62JyVHV7a7DsY7B55eEowHu+8WOxeBpf3PsSr/7kC15n2iawOo1A/AQoCqoX91YEd2WMYlxnSVTFLiDTPR7UzXPuMdrsDvIA0eznpSsboPks8oeZW7hI0b74/1j"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.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" Cancel-Lock: sha1:bxlL8WhPMoNNh55nrCEbme8Fqk8= sha1:P/ft1JfKgQAKDVcpG/NzJ84/KCw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220712 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114821 Archived-At: On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:43:36 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Oh. So you want el-get but those get-recipes to be maintained for you. I >> would talk to the el-get maintainers. SM> I think another part of the request makes sense: integrate this with SM> package.el. I.e. package.el could provide some way to hook in non-ELPA SM> sources of packages (including browsing them via list-packages and SM> installing/ activating them). I agree, but it would have to be clearly separated, so users are not thinking those are ELPA-style packages. Maybe a separate section? On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 11:14:29 -0800 (PST) Deric Bytes wrote: DB> I just meant there was a list of known packages from trusted git sources to browse. El-get already supplies a list like this. So the backend could just use that list. I'd talk to the el-get maintainers. They can suggest how `list-packages' could be extended or maybe a new command `list-recipes'. DB> I would like the ability to look at the recipe and change it. If a change is DB> made then the default recipe would be copied to a user specified recipe and then DB> overshadow the default one, so that on doing an update my config is still in DB> tact. This makes sense, but can get unpleasantly complicated. I'm not sure most users want it. Ted