From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el: soft dependencies?
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:52:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mo40a7$5gi$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uaimntn.fsf@gmx.us>
On 14/07/15 23:28, Rasmus wrote:
> Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> writes:
>
>> This could be accomplished with a Package-Suggests header, with exactly
>> the same format as Package-Requires. package.el would just need to
>> present this information in the package description page, for the user
>> to inspect.
>
> But for optional dependencies you'd want to know what you get when
> installing more stuff, also within the package manager. So there should
> also be a one line summary of what the dependency adds (this is how pacman
> works; I don't remember how verbose apt is).
apt has no detail as of why a package is suggested, and it works well
enough for me. Presenting the list briefly, as done for the requirements
would do.
Normally, when a package is suggested, I explicitly look for it in the
docs/description. Just knowing it's suggested does the job.
Most of the time the package name makes it immediately obvious though,
so it's rather straighforward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-14 20:53 package.el: soft dependencies? Yuri D'Elia
2015-07-14 21:28 ` Rasmus
2015-07-14 21:52 ` Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2015-07-14 22:03 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-07-15 10:06 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-15 15:09 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-07-14 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-16 11:35 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-16 12:23 ` Tassilo Horn
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