Re: What exactly does "installing a package" mean?

[Kevin W . van Rooijen]

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Emanuel Berg writes:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> On 2015-10-26, at 22:31, Kevin W. van Rooijen
>> <kevin.van.rooijen@attichacker.com> wrote:
>
> OT: Did you get that as a private mail? I don't see it
> in the gmane.emacs.help threads...

Strange, I CC'd the mailing list..

> But, to answer your question, no, there is nothing to
> it but files and directories, just like everything
> else on a Unix system. So alter it all exactly like
> you please. Only, especially since it works, I don't
> see any gain in doing so - on the contrary it'll be
> error-prone and time-consuming. Only if you enjoy it
> you should do it.

I agree with this, in the end having too many packages doesn't really
matter as long as it's managed by Emacs. But of course it's your choice :)

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