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bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package
From: |
Felician Nemeth |
Subject: |
bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:25:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> package-vc can check out the latest revision that bumped the version tag
> (which is what {Non,}GNU ELPA uses to create new versions of a package),
> you just need to call `package-vc-install' with `:last-release' as REV.
> So the technical means are there.
>
> But if this is done, the question what advantage this has over just
> installing a tarball this has? You would almost always get the same
> code.
Convenience, I suppose. You can copy your init file to a new machine,
and it will work.
> [...] All I want to understand is the motivation behind this feature
> in the first place.
One use-case is to let package developers to distribute thier packages
without a package archive. Or more precisely, to let users conveniently
install packages that are not in a package archive.
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/07
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Felician Nemeth, 2023/04/08
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/08
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Tony Zorman, 2023/04/12
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/12
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Tony Zorman, 2023/04/12
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Tony Zorman, 2023/04/16
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/16
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Tony Zorman, 2023/04/17
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/18
- bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package, Tony Zorman, 2023/04/19