GNU Package Repositories

GNU Package Repositories

[M. R.P.]

Is their a way to List a Comprehensive list of GNU software packages in 
Emacs Like the List packages for emacs packages?

Re: GNU Package Repositories

[John Mastro]

M. R.P. <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> wrote:
> Is their a way to List a Comprehensive list of GNU software packages in
> Emacs Like the List packages for emacs packages?

This is perhaps not what you mean, but my first thought was:

    M-x eww RET https://www.gnu.org/software/software.en.html RET

That page contains the official list of all GNU software packages, but of
course you can't install/upgrade/remove the packages from there. For that, you
would need an Emacs package that integrates with your system's package
manager[1] (or use said package manager directly from `M-x shell').

[1] Such packages do seem to exist, e.g. https://github.com/cgroza/Emacs-apt

        John

Re: GNU Package Repositories

[Emanuel Berg]

M. R.P. wrote:

> Is their a way to List a Comprehensive list
> of GNU software packages in Emacs Like the
> List packages for emacs packages?

The GNU ELPA? N.B., one of many elpas...

(package-initialize)

;; ...

(defun elpas ()
  (interactive)
  (package-list-packages) )
(defalias 'elpa 'elpas)

(defvar package-archives)
(setq package-archives
      '(( "gnu elpa" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
        ( "melpa"    . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") ))

More: (less?)
    http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/elpa.el

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