From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 23:32:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36D2CC88; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wp376.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp376.webpack.hosteurope.de [IPv6:2a01:488:42::50ed:8591]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBC4922A; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xdsl-87-79-148-134.netcologne.de ([87.79.148.134] helo=[192.168.2.65]); authenticated by wp376.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) id 1XsKA3-0003Bg-Bf; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:32:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> Subject: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:32:14 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;cjr@cruwe.de;1416699139;b8e21b85; Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:32:19 -0000 I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. 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. In that light and as the ports maintainer of math/ess, the Emacs speaks statistics R-mode of emacs, I am asking myself specifically whether I add any real benefit in maintaining math/ess. More generally, I am interested in community answers as to whether it is really useful to maintain Emacs-extension-packages in ports. Thanks for your thoughts, cheers, -- Christopher