Re: Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:10:46 +0000
>> 
>> +---
>> +*** New command to start Emacs only with specific packages
>> +The command 'package-isolate' is equivalent to starting Emacs with the
>> +-Q flag and loading specific packages (and their dependencies)
>> +manually.
>
> If this is how this feature is going to be implemented, I suggest to
> reword this NEWS entry to make the intent and the feature easier to
> understand:
>
>   *** New command to start an inferior Emacs loading only specific packages.
>   The new command 'package-isolate' will start a new Emacs process, as
>   a sub-process of Emacs where you invoke the command, in a way that
>   causes the new process to load only some of the installed packages.
>   The command prompts for the packages to activate in this
>   sub-process, and is intended for testing Emacs and/or the packages
>   in a clean environment.

As usual, I prefer your phrasing.  Will update the patch.