From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:51:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> <87lj7t3qj7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4C772D7D.4050604@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282888320 25415 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 05:52:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:52:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 07:51:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oorr5-0007dF-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:51:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oorr4-0002sz-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59509 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oorqx-0002su-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oorqw-0003jT-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:51:51 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oorqw-0003j3-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oorqs-0007a1-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:51:46 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:51:46 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:51:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <4C772D7D.4050604@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129280 Archived-At: 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