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Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates
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Artur Malabarba |
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Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates |
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Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:21:40 -0200 |
Such a feature would also benefit from having package.el do the url
stuff asynchronously to prevent hanging the interface.
Still, even without that, a package-autoupdate-mode would be very nice.
2015-02-06 13:21 GMT-02:00 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
>> As an old-time emacs user, I'm delighted with the new package
>> features. But one thing lacking, I still have to manually check for
>> updates from time-to-time. It would be great to have an automatic
>> check that would notify the user of available updates.
>
> I'd accept a patch which does that.
>
> Note that I definitely do not want Emacs's default behavior to include
> automatically contacting some remote host on a regular basis. So such
> a (mis)feature would be disabled by default.
>
>
> Stefan
>