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Re: Emacs Package Management
From: |
Eric Schulte |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Package Management |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:00:19 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (darwin) |
Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> * Emacs is already too big. If we made it easy to install third-party
> packages, we could spin many packages already included in Emacs
> (perhaps gnus, erc, and org) out into their own independent
> projects. We would avoid problems like "the big gnus merge" that
> happens every so often as well as allowing them to follow their own
> release cycles. In addition, a lot of packages are simply fringe;
> they're only useful to a small subset of Emacs users.
I think this point is increasingly important as people try to install
Emacs on mobile devices. The use of a package system which tracks
dependencies between packages would be a great help to users who are
currently lopping off large parts of Emacs to fit it onto devices with
limited memory.
- Re: Emacs Package Management, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tassilo Horn, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Lennart Borgman, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Rupert Swarbrick, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Bob Rogers, 2009/09/18
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Rupert Swarbrick, 2009/09/19
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tassilo Horn, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/17
Re: Emacs Package Management,
Eric Schulte <=
Re: Emacs Package Management, Stephen Eilert, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Phil Hagelberg, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Lennart Borgman, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Chong Yidong, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Phil Hagelberg, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/29