Re: Pondering the Emacs add-on packaging situation

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Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 24 June 2015 at 08:01, Jan Synacek <jsynacek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> So, I am not really sure what a good way forward is at this point.
>>> Certainly package.el could be extended to help us out in some ways,
>>> such as having a notion of "installed and available but not active".
>>> But is it worth the effort?
>>
>> In my opinion, no. I will repeat myself: Emacs packages should be left
>> for users to install, since it's very easy to do, and they can choose
>> From stable/development versions.

You could, but there's a difference. The python/perl packages
(libraries) can easily turn out to be a mess, because they are part of a
development environment. It also makes much more sense (to me, at least)
to have them installed system-wide.

(Not sure if my explanation is clear enough.)

> OK, thanks for your thoughts, very helpful.

I'm glad I could help.

Cheers,
-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat

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