From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:24:42 -0800 Message-ID: <93E0CF7C-B6FD-45A0-92EB-A08AF38983B3@mit.edu> References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwr264r6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hce62bg.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299353099 606 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2011 19:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 20:24:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvx5z-0008Rz-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:24:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvx5y-0005iU-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54472 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvx5t-0005iM-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvx5q-0003wv-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu ([18.9.25.12]:54650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvx5q-0003wk-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:24:46 -0500 X-AuditID: 1209190c-b7ba9ae0000009f8-d6-4d728dfeed11 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.35]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id A7.77.02552.EFD827D4; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 14:24:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id p25JOjwQ005954; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 14:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.3] (c-67-183-32-38.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.183.32.38]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id p25JOh40002735 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 5 Mar 2011 14:24:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <877hce62bg.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARePPVM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 18.9.25.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136793 Archived-At: On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > No. This query is only for Lisp code placed in the load-dir, not for > packages in general. So you'd have the query as part of the el-get > installation for instance and it wouldn't show up again. Compare with > Mac OS X which does this for new applications you've downloaded from = the > net, alerting the very first time. If the user has to go through a set of steps to install and activate a = package, how isn't that what ELPA does? As I'm understanding you, any magic directory is either no less work for = the user or has unforgivable security issues. What am I missing? *Chad