From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Hagelberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:40:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> <87lj7t3qj7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282945239 19070 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 21:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 23:40:35 2010 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 1Op6f1-0006U2-CA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op6f0-0001gs-Ce for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60702 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op6eu-0001ga-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op6et-0006oa-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:46212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op6et-0006oP-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so4224174vws.0 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.122.203 with SMTP id m11mr870053vcr.118.1282945221416; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.160.144 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:40:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:129317 Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Uday S Reddy wrote: > Separating out the .emacs issue, I think it would indeed be a good idea to > have the preferred-package list stored somewhere so that we can use it for > new installations. I have wanted to have this functionality as well as I often copy my .emacs config around among multiple machines and would rather have a single step to pull in my set of preferred packages rather than getting them one by one. If it's agreed that we want it in package.el, I can give it a shot. -Phil