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Re: Auto-installing packages?
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Perry E. Metzger |
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Re: Auto-installing packages? |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:02 -0400 |
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:51:09 -0400 Stefan Monnier
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> So, I'm wondering how we could better serve our users by providing
> them with an alternative solution to their underlying need, which
> hopefully suffers less from those problems.
>
> Maybe some way to have something along the line of autoloads but
> that instead of loading the Elisp code from a locally installed
> package, they prompt the user explaining that this functionality
> requires installing package FOO, etc?
That's not too bad. A couple of flavors of Linux have a feature at
the command line where if you run a common program that isn't
installed, it tells you what package will install it. This would be
comparable.
Perry
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- Re: Auto-installing packages?, (continued)
Re: Auto-installing packages?, Phillip Lord, 2018/09/14
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