From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 14bb519: * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: New "external" package status Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 23:32:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150507151357.4431.95466@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431055964 18675 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2015 03:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 03:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 05:32:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YqZ1f-0006H0-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 05:32:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqZ1e-0000iS-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 23:32:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqZ1a-0000hW-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 23:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqZ1X-0000w7-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 23:32:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:62420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqZ1X-0000vz-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 23:32:27 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRFpYts/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiBOiEYt8aAkDA4M+A4NwBKNjhFg X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRFpYts/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiBOiEYt8aAkDA4M+A4NwBKNjhFg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="118633035" Original-Received: from 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.139.108]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 07 May 2015 23:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B1F0466132; Thu, 7 May 2015 23:32:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Thu, 7 May 2015 19:47:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186323 Archived-At: > I didn't call them "system" because they might just have been > installed by the user. I can change that if preferred, but that brings I don't have a strong opinion on that. > The docstring of `package-directory-list' says it is intended for > system-wide packages. But it seems to me that it would work perfectly > fine for the user's manually installed packages (in fact, that's what > I'm doing here). I put the elpa/packages directory in there too (and elpa/README suggests doing so as well). But I tend to think of this case as "installed by my sysadmin-half". >> And we should allow the user to install another version on top of it. > I think we already do. If a more recent version is available from the > archives it is still shown in the menu. It just won't be automatically > marked for installation with the `U' key. Are, perfect then, thanks, Stefan