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* Auto-installing packages?
@ 2018-09-14  1:51 Stefan Monnier
  2018-09-14  7:09 ` Phil Sainty
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2018-09-14  1:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


Every time I see someone asking for or posting a little Elisp snippet
that automatically installs packages at Emacs startup, I'm wondering how
to answer that need: OT1H I find such requests fundamentally flawed in
terms of security, privacy, and reliability, but OTOH they correspond to
a real desire and lots of our users seem to not only be willing to
forego their security, privacy and reliability for that feature, but
they actually do so.

So, I'm wondering how we could better serve our users by providing them
with an alternative solution to their underlying need, which hopefully
suffers less from those problems.

Maybe some way to have something along the line of autoloads but that
instead of loading the Elisp code from a locally installed package, they
prompt the user explaining that this functionality requires installing
package FOO, etc?


        Stefan



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2018-09-14  1:51 Auto-installing packages? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14  7:09 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14  8:39 ` T.V Raman
2018-09-15  0:46   ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 11:50     ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 22:51       ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 16:16         ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-19  3:40           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20 16:58             ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-24  1:46               ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-14 14:11 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-14 18:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 11:48     ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 13:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 16:12         ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-18 21:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 15:52 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-15  0:50   ` Richard Stallman

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