From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make a "general" Emacs configuration Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:52:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C61DA12.5080403@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281516798 30132 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 08:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:53:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 10:53:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Oj73l-0000Dm-OP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:53:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oj73l-0007pj-4z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60587 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oj733-0007o8-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oj732-00014g-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oj731-00014S-VS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oj72z-0008Oe-EA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:52:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 80-163.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de ([134.61.80.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:52:29 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by 80-163.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:52:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-163.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r8x8qS+Qri80FZKt9YGA9G4otoo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74534 Archived-At: Bernardo writes: > > have a look at this > http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Yes I knew that, but this time I didn't really have a question. But I would like to share my thoughts with the mailing list about something that I think is a common problem. So I think the options are - try to use packages.el as much as possible like the starter-kit - fork/mirror all the needed packages and then add them as submodules Is this all right?