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Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:12:01 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:45:51 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
SM> `package.el' is great to install packages more easily, but it falls short
SM> when you want to keep the same set of installed packages on various
SM> machines, or when it's time to remove package you don't need because it
SM> doesn't distinguish between the packages you want and those required
SM> by those packages.
SM> So I'm looking for some kind soul who could extend package.el so as to
SM> keep track of the packages that the user installed explicitly.
SM> This should likely be kept in a custom variable.
SM> Then we could add a command to install all the packages listed in
SM> that variable. And we could also write a function that deletes all
SM> "orphan" packages.
(CC to Robert Dallas Gray, Pallet's author)
Pallet does this: https://github.com/rdallasgray/pallet
I am not crazy about Cask because it requires Python, but the simplicity
of Pallet itself is appealing. It uses advice and can be easily
improved to integrate better with package.el with a few hooks.
Pallet is GPL-ed and I don't know if the author would be interested in
assigning the copyright to Emacs and modifying Pallet to support a
non-Cask package maintenance backend. If that was possible, the problem
would be reduced to writing that backend and the package.el hooks.
Otherwise I think at least looking at pallet.el is worthwhile.
Ted
- package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/07
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, joakim, 2014/11/07
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Phillip Lord, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/10
- package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/10
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/10
- RE: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Drew Adams, 2014/11/10
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11