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Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selecte
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alex |
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Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' |
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Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:17:57 -0500 |
> This seems to be a general complaint about package.el using Custom to
> save the data about installed packages. I see no arguments as to why
> it's wrong to use Custom for that.
There's two major issues that I have in this instance:
1)
The user is barely notified that the variable is being saved. In other
instances (such as the Customize interface), it's quite obvious that
it's going to change your customize file. Installing/upgrading packages
changes the file with no obvious notice or prompt (as the notice gets
drowned out by the package install/upgrade/delete messages). It's also
not obvious at all that your customize file is going to change from
those actions (it hasn't since these actions were created).
2)
The package list for a particular user can differ between different
machines. This makes it annoying to share a config among the machine
with something like git. I think this data would be better suited to a
separate place where it's easy go gitignore it, like with abbrevs,
recentf and so on. It's tied not only to the customization in the init
file but also outside state (that is, any packages
installed/deleted outside of your init file).
- Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages', (continued)
- Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'), Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/02/18
- Re: Mechanisms to persist information, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/18
- Re: Mechanisms to persist information, Jonathan Leech-Pepin, 2016/02/18
- Re: Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'), John Wiegley, 2016/02/19
- Re: Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'), Eric Abrahamsen, 2016/02/19
- Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages', John Wiegley, 2016/02/18
- Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages',
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- Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/19
- Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages', alex, 2016/02/19
- Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages', raman, 2016/02/18