From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: Andrew Pennebaker <apennebaker@42six.com>
Cc: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Could we organize all Emacs packages with a single repo system?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:44:08 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1308161242000.40602@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC7GPxbMFpFPOcYLbX1BKJo0yBTGVNx-Rvi-76UrPT2=KTy8AQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> Marmalade and MELPA are really cool. I'd love to see their packages merged
> into a single system (Marmalade or MELPA, doesn't matter), to reduce
> confusion.
>
> There are some cool packages only in Marmalade, and some nifty packages
> only in MELPA, so I have to instruct Emacs to check *both* repos in my
> .emacs :P Yuck.
>
> If the repos hold different versions, you could get nasty dependency
> conflicts.
>
> And we could finally build in support for the repo into Emacs, so users
> don't have to manually insert the default repo into .emacs. I think M-x
> install-package xyz should work out of the box, zero configuration required.
>
> Of course, configuration would still be available, should further repos
> spring up, and users want to prioritize them over the default one.
>
> Personally, I'd prefer MELPA for its distributed, git-based approach. But
> it's more important to me that Emacs get a standard package management
> system akin to RubyGems, that runs out of the box with no configuration
> required, to make things easier.
>
I hope that never happens, monolythic targets don't have survival
redundancy and would be an easy target for the malware writers out there.
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-16 15:48 Could we organize all Emacs packages with a single repo system? Andrew Pennebaker
2013-08-16 16:44 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2013-08-16 19:36 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-08-19 11:07 ` Phillip Lord
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