From: Radon Rosborough <radon.neon@gmail.com>
To: Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:04:01 -0700 [thread overview]
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> > But you still haven't addressed the real problem, which is that
> > when Emacs inserts `package-initialize' into the init-file, it
> > usually does so incorrectly.
>
> I have addressed this before - "in case you a)don't use package.el
> and b)don't use any other package manager and c)don't suppress the
> proposed message manually, it's pretty safe to assume that you don't
> have much of init anyway and you're our intended target".
So in other words, your solution still does the wrong thing, it's just
that this fact is unlikely to cause real trouble? I still think we
should be aiming for a solution which always does the right thing.
In any case, as Eli has pointed out, adding flashy interactive
messages should be avoided except as a last resort. Adding
~/.emacs.d/.package-initialize.el is not intrusive, and most users
need not know the file even exists. Adding a popup dialog that happens
to every user at least once is highly intrusive.
> P. S. I think that instead of using the phrase "second init-file"
> you should use "separate package.el config".
I shall. In fact, I am very much a fan of Eli's suggestion:
a ~/.emacs.d/.package-initialize.el file, to be read by
package-initialize before it does anything else
In any case, the point is that this solution has NO PRACTICAL
DISADVANTAGES. Whereas every other solution has the potential to annoy
the user in some situation. In that light, it seems to make most sense
to choose the package-initialize.el solution.
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2017-08-20 2:38 Summary and next steps for (package-initialize) Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 6:10 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-20 17:20 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 18:09 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-20 18:39 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-21 4:08 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 8:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-20 17:21 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 8:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-20 17:21 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 16:37 ` Alex
2017-08-20 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 16:46 ` Yuri Khan
2017-08-20 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-20 17:18 ` Colin Baxter
2017-08-22 21:24 ` Alex
2017-08-20 17:22 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 17:54 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 16:43 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:33 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-22 4:52 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 8:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-22 16:02 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-22 18:09 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 21:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-21 9:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-21 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 16:34 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 17:47 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-22 11:37 ` Timur Aydin
2017-08-22 16:58 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 21:04 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-23 5:17 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 11:33 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-08-23 17:16 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 13:28 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 17:31 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 18:32 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 20:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 20:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-23 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 21:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-23 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 0:44 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 6:39 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-25 1:03 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83fucg99cj.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-24 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 18:12 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-24 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 21:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-24 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83bmn496js.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-24 18:36 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-24 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-24 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-24 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 3:59 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 4:45 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 11:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 4:28 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 21:34 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-26 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-26 22:33 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 16:18 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 19:09 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-08-23 15:57 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-23 18:17 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 19:17 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-23 19:38 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 20:09 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-24 0:13 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 13:44 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough [this message]
2017-08-24 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-23 22:30 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-08-24 0:54 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 11:13 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-08-24 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-24 17:52 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-24 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 13:48 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
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2017-08-21 8:24 angelo.g0
2017-08-21 16:22 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 19:35 ` Angelo Graziosi
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