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From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: document package.el
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:51:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i57jp8$oob$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C772D7D.4050604@gmail.com>

On 8/27/2010 4:14 AM, Christoph wrote:
> On 8/26/2010 5:50 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> Downloading&installing packages from .emacs should not be encouraged.
>
> Why?

Because if it gets stuck, your Emacs is stuck.  A start-up file should do quick 
and safe configuration actions and return to the user so that he/she can get on 
with using it.

You are free to put whatever you want in your .emacs of course.  But that can't 
be the policy.

Cheers,
Uday





  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 22:42 document package.el Tom Tromey
2010-08-06 23:48 ` Phil Hagelberg
2010-08-09 16:22   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-07  1:43 ` Christoph
2010-08-07  8:57   ` Geralt
2010-08-09 16:23   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-26 23:27   ` Juri Linkov
2010-08-26 23:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-27  3:14       ` Christoph
2010-08-27  5:51         ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-08-27  3:12     ` Christoph
2010-08-27  7:07     ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-27 21:40       ` Phil Hagelberg
2010-08-28 17:34         ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-27  6:43   ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-27 15:51     ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-27 16:17     ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-27 21:43     ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-27 22:58       ` Christoph
2010-08-28  7:25         ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-07  7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-08 22:39   ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-09 16:24     ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-21 18:22   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-21 18:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-22  1:40       ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-08 23:06 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-09 21:13   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-21 18:37   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-25 17:24     ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-25 17:34       ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-25 17:35         ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-17 14:37 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-17 15:57   ` Tom Tromey

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