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Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize) |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:57:29 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:36:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> > > Just because a user has installed a package, it doesn't follow
> > > that s?he wants to always and immediately initialize that package
> > > for each Emacs session.
> >
> > Yes, it does mean exactly that.
>
> Too bad, if so. A user should, I think, be able to hit a key to
> download a package and have it _available_ to be used, without
> necessarily loading its files in each Emacs session.
That's not how package.el works. Think of it as the Windows .msi
installer: running it installs the package, and then activates it, so
invoking after that boils down to running a command.
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), (continued)
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/24
- RE: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Drew Adams, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/08/24
- RE: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Drew Adams, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/08/24
- RE: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Drew Adams, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/24
- RE: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Drew Adams, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/22
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/24
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/25
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/25
- Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/25