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Re: Auto-installing packages?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Auto-installing packages? |
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Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:46:43 -0400 |
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> I don't think it's a tangent. Emacs out of the box already favours ELPA,
> and does not enable other archives. The default for additional mechanism
> for loading external packages would be at least as restrictive --
> i.e. out of the box, Emacs would only use this additional mechanism for
> ELPA.
I'm concerned that external packages, or other versions, would set a
variable to enable other package archives "by default". This seems
like replacing a plaster wall that has a door, with a curtain made of
strings of beads.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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