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Re: Yum-like emacs package manager?
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Alexis |
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Re: Yum-like emacs package manager? |
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Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:22:12 +1100 |
On 2015-02-18T04:33:50+1100, Anssi Saari said:
AS> I haven't had problems with that but then I have very little
AS> experience with package.el. Last week I installed org-ehtml
from
AS> melpa but the installation failed because org-mode was too
old
AS> (this was on an otherwise pristine 24.4 installation.) Easily
AS> fixed by updating org first but it seems there's no
dependency
AS> handling which seems really rather odd.
There is at least some dependency handling[1], but Org as a
dependency is a bit trickier than others, as it's a package which
is under heavy development outside of Emacs core - and many Org
users follow the bleeding edge - but the version of it bundled
with Emacs is merely a 'snapshot' of Org development at a
particular point in the Emacs release cycle.
There have been a few discussions recently on the emacs-devel
list:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/
about improving the Emacs package system, e.g.:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00967.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00632.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00367.html
Alexis.
[1] E.g. consider the `ac-clang` package on MELPA. In
`package-list-packages` view, pressing RET on the package name
will show:
Requires: emacs-24, cl-lib-0.5, auto-complete-1.4.0,
yasnippet-0.8.0
and trying to install it will (in my experience) pull in
e.g. yasnippet if the latter isn't already installed.