From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can list-packages be set up to show latest github emacs packages? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:48:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3f62e436-87d6-485e-aea8-7e403a9db901@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510321760 31752 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2017 13:49:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:49:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 14:49:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9gH-0007vh-G3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:49:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9gN-0005f5-Du for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9fj-0005eC-Ja for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9fd-0002mS-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36484 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9fd-0002jZ-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9fS-0005mE-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:48:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zk3j+JC1CnEPZSCei700c7LIMdQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114831 Archived-At: > I'd prefer there not be such a big distinction between the different types of packages. Various solutions > - a toggle - big distinction/subtle distinction > - differnet faces > - or an extra tag with git/elpa/melpa/wiki > - the non-Elpa packages are not on by default and have to be > enabled by adding some setting i.e. > `list-package-sources-in-preference-order' For the foreseeable future, only GNU ELPA will be in the default archives, so there's no need for a switch, since users would first have to "manually" add some other archive anyway (and probably install some third party package to add support for non-ELPA archives on top of that). Stefan