Re: Could we organize all Emacs packages with a single repo system?

[Jude DaShiell]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:

> Marmalade and MELPA are really cool. I'd love to see their packages merged
> into a single system (Marmalade or MELPA, doesn't matter), to reduce
> confusion.
> 
> There are some cool packages only in Marmalade, and some nifty packages
> only in MELPA, so I have to instruct Emacs to check *both* repos in my
> .emacs :P Yuck.
> 
> If the repos hold different versions, you could get nasty dependency
> conflicts.
> 
> And we could finally build in support for the repo into Emacs, so users
> don't have to manually insert the default repo into .emacs. I think M-x
> install-package xyz should work out of the box, zero configuration required.
> 
> Of course, configuration would still be available, should further repos
> spring up, and users want to prioritize them over the default one.
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer MELPA for its distributed, git-based approach. But
> it's more important to me that Emacs get a standard package management
> system akin to RubyGems, that runs out of the box with no configuration
> required, to make things easier.
> 
I hope that never happens, monolythic targets don't have survival 
redundancy and would be an easy target for the malware writers out there.

> 

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