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: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:27:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a943umku.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415420881 10059 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2014 04:28:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 04:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 05:27:52 2014 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 1Xmxcu-00081b-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 05:27:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xmxcu-00028w-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmxcZ-00028a-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmxcS-0004n9-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:1990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmxcS-0004l3-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:27:24 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvAMAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1ADBAICgRwXAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDYhvCctyAQEBAQYBAQEBAR2RCAcWhDUFi2SNLwWFeo1ehTCBb4QWH4J6AQEB X-IPAS-Result: AvAMAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1ADBAICgRwXAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDYhvCctyAQEBAQYBAQEBAR2RCAcWhDUFi2SNLwWFeo1ehTCBb4QWH4J6AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="96254026" Original-Received: from 75-119-235-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([75.119.235.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 07 Nov 2014 23:27:22 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B00C9AEE55; Fri, 7 Nov 2014 23:27:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:50:20 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (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:176562 Archived-At: > Also there is "el-get". It has some kind of funky license though. I'd like this new facility to be well-integrated into package.el. E.g. M-x package-install should update the list of packages explicitly requested by the user. I don't think el-get qualifies in this respect. Stefan