Re: using use-package

[Edward Knyshov]

If you have many packages depending on company, your multi-package form may
become very big and complex.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:46 AM Edward Knyshov <edvorg@gmail.com> wrote:

> So if we do not use cider, we still can use company in some other modes,
> because they also could :require company
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM Edward Knyshov <edvorg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From my point of view cider couldn't be configured without company mode,
>> because some features lays on it, but company could.
>> That's why company is dependency of cider in this example. That's why
>> company is single req-package form and cider is dependent form.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:28 AM Nikolay Kudryavtsev <
>> nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Edward.
>>>
>>> It's not about the practical problem of setting up cider and company.
>>> Its about the generic problem of which cider and company is just one
>>> example.
>>>
>>> Req-package makes our configuration for cider depend on our
>>> configuration for company-mode. This is a working solution in practice,
>>> but to me it seems wrong from a theoretical standpoint, since it mingles
>>> too much together. The original reasoning for use-package is separating
>>> package configurations into separate forms for every single package. But
>>> cases like this create multi-package forms, since our configuration for
>>> cider also sets up some stuff for company mode. A better (theoretical)
>>> solution is to have another macro specifically for situations like this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Nikolay Kudryavtsev
>>>
>>>