From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Tomas Nordin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40457: 26.3; A little Help from `list-packages'? Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:32:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87y2r9f1zv.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <1aeaea1a-601e-4192-9da5-5f6ccdb23eb7@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="129998"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Drew Adams , 40457@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 10:33:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBy-000XhS-Pp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56248 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBx-0000I2-Q0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBn-0000Ew-Fy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBm-0005jg-Ge for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBm-0005jI-3e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBm-0003Eq-0B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:33:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Tomas Nordin Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:33:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40457 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40457-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40457.158616196712390 (code B ref 40457); Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:33:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40457) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Apr 2020 08:32:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47137 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBX-0003Dm-J8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:32:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:46805) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLNBU-0003DE-Df for 40457@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6CFE2400FC for <40457@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:32:37 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1586161957; bh=/FpKLei78bVxylhRVXtf7HjMN2+aGQawgBLBiXm15bU=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=YghtaLWKHPt5RENP5yjOP9M+s/dIPtUZDuoFJtnMn5vyniDqUXcS910qIZcJZhngK Iu7yeR2Nb6r6kCJV9n/j/zz3Ru3uvCr4bJT+8nyePH2OdTrlNe0xj+Cjwdivw7g9R4 G+jMxUB7O5IUI8ApwXMzKjyAq6Mjh0d3rk0bjchIuGi3H+ESp1bMnxTxnkCMeiJErt eIOLcAXYKl+/h3+zgbJigwZTVARmJfM+ALigkMdyycl0KT0IRrLakieE9s6feCrnLo PFk8gz/0UrmU9oiZwkFgN2PmkBngW1oi/nInbY4NQP95gOWJljviXtxDLrUvbJXZWF GFF16E2uAKX8Q== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 48wkLY1rVJz9rxG; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:32:37 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1aeaea1a-601e-4192-9da5-5f6ccdb23eb7@default> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178076 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > But suppose I want to just download a package - its source files, and I > don't want to "install" it (especially since I have no way of knowing > what "installing" actually will do). How to do that - download the > marked packages? How to find out how to do it? This is I guess my main > question for this bug report. Sounds interesting to me, a helper to download a source package included in the package system. A convenience feature. Maybe to strip down this report to a feature request to add just that? I can imagine it could trigger an itch with somebody. Otherwise I guess the help from the list-packages for now is the link to the package homepage. Best regards -- Tomas