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Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir


From: Chad Brown
Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:24:42 -0800

On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> No.  This query is only for Lisp code placed in the load-dir, not for
> packages in general.  So you'd have the query as part of the el-get
> installation for instance and it wouldn't show up again.  Compare with
> Mac OS X which does this for new applications you've downloaded from the
> net, alerting the very first time.

If the user has to go through a set of steps to install and activate a package, 
how isn't that what ELPA does?

As I'm understanding you, any magic directory is either no less work for the 
user or has unforgivable security issues.  What am I missing?

*Chad




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