From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List packages Status column terminology
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwqhwhh2o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh46knzj.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:14:32 +0530")
>>> Well, it probably would make sense to change the 'Status' to 'Action' as
>>> that would be a better reflection of 'list-packages' functionality.
>> What "Action" do you propose for "built-in"? And "obsolete"?
> Why, "installed" and not show obsolete packages.
"installed" doesn't sound much like an action.
> And obsolete packages, that stumps me.
You lack imagination. "obsolete" means that the version number is not
the highest. But maybe the user wants that "older" package.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-19 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-17 4:56 List packages Status column terminology Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-17 8:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-01-17 10:19 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-17 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 14:35 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-17 15:12 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-17 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-17 16:15 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-17 17:39 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-17 17:54 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-17 21:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 22:55 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-18 2:44 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-19 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-18 12:33 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-18 12:55 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-23 23:38 ` Trent W. Buck
2014-01-24 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 1:32 ` Trent W. Buck
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