Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:40:53 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports Message-ID: <44mw7g22lm.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> (Christopher J. Ruwe's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:32:14 %2B0100") References: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy>
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[trimmed to a single mailing list] "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> writes: > Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a > decent editor, has developed a package manager for Emacs > extensions. Some good repos exist, packages are usually installed to > ~/.emacs.d and I have come to really enjoy that way of installing > packages. The two methods are equivalent on a single-user machine. If we had a canned method to install Emacs packages to the site-local lisp directories without using the ports system, that would make the ports less relevant on multi-user systems as well. There are also differences in convenience based on which repositories provide which packages. My first reaction is that removing the ports would only be advisable for packages available from the official Gnu repository (elpa.gnu.org), and not for others. So: I don't think the ports are without value, but we could move that way for many of them if we wanted. Once the number of users of earlier versions of emacs is sufficiently small, that is.
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