From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 19:05:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 171AD404 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-32.italiaonline.it (smtp-32.italiaonline.it [212.48.25.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA5994C for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from soth.ventu ([151.41.133.212]) by smtp-32.iol.local with bizsmtp id K73n1p00V4b6vlT0Y73oAJ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:03:49 +0100 x-libjamoibt: 1601 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=b+s8472x c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=aEHEqg2L5nDZKp0uWL+Ugw==:117 a=aEHEqg2L5nDZKp0uWL+Ugw==:17 a=9JsmjkwClTQA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=5y4faFyK3SkA:10 a=57oBhaoVK3MGZyhNcdEA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id sANJ3lRT092836; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:03:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <54722F93.80602@netfence.it> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:03:47 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports References: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> In-Reply-To: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:05:00 -0000 On 11/23/14 00:32, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, > however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. > ... More > generally, I am interested in community answers as to whether it is > really useful to maintain Emacs-extension-packages in ports. Hello. I was asking myself the same question some days ago... I'm no emacs-port maintainer, so my PoV was that of a user, wondering where to look first and which repository/package manager was best used in case what I was looking for was present in both. Rather than give an answer, I'll raise a further doubt: isn't this question applicabile in general (e.g. to Firefox with it's xpi ports)? While I like having my installed xpi/emacs extension listed in pkg's reports (and only look in one place), I don't think the port system might be able to track them all, so I'll eventually end up anyway with some package which is not installed via pkg. Just my 2c. bye av.