Re: using use-package

[Edward Knyshov <edvorg@gmail.com>]

From my point of view cider couldn't be configured without company mode,
because some features lays on it, but company could.
That's why company is dependency of cider in this example. That's why
company is single req-package form and cider is dependent form.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:28 AM Nikolay Kudryavtsev <
nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Edward.
>
> It's not about the practical problem of setting up cider and company.
> Its about the generic problem of which cider and company is just one
> example.
>
> Req-package makes our configuration for cider depend on our
> configuration for company-mode. This is a working solution in practice,
> but to me it seems wrong from a theoretical standpoint, since it mingles
> too much together. The original reasoning for use-package is separating
> package configurations into separate forms for every single package. But
> cases like this create multi-package forms, since our configuration for
> cider also sets up some stuff for company mode. A better (theoretical)
> solution is to have another macro specifically for situations like this.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Nikolay Kudryavtsev
>
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