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Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal
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Nic Ferrier |
Subject: |
Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:40:39 +0000 |
Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
> Nic Ferrier writes:
>> One thing about elpakit's solution is that elpakit does this by making a
>> package with the right dependencies.
>>
>> Elpakit's solution is in fact just a package depend builder. Choose X, Y
>> and Z packages and then make a new package depending on those.
>
> So I'd have an (empty) package named "user-packages" and it depends on
> exactly those packages I named, possibly with their version specified?
> And I could maybe have a number of additional packages to create
> something of a hierarchy of such things? Like a "system-packages"
> package that my "user-packages" package can depend on (or not if I don't
> want to)?
Yes.
Elpakit let's you do that. Stefan is asking for something simpler than
that. And I agree, something simpler than that is a good thing.
>> Maybe the current package installed by user state could be constantly
>> regenerated as a package.
>
> Or maybe just skip the actual packaging step and really only deal with
> the dependencies.
Sure. But packages are a useful encapsulation of dependencies.
Nic
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, (continued)
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Phillip Lord, 2014/11/11
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Achim Gratz, 2014/11/11
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal,
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- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/12
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/12
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/12
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/12
Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/07
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