Re: Auto-installing packages?

[T.V Raman]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

autoload-remote?


So one could potentially say
(autoload-remote "fn" "pkg" t)

in a module that needs "pkg" and have the magic happen
> Every time I see someone asking for or posting a little Elisp snippet
> that automatically installs packages at Emacs startup, I'm wondering how
> to answer that need: OT1H I find such requests fundamentally flawed in
> terms of security, privacy, and reliability, but OTOH they correspond to
> a real desire and lots of our users seem to not only be willing to
> forego their security, privacy and reliability for that feature, but
> they actually do so.
>
> So, I'm wondering how we could better serve our users by providing them
> with an alternative solution to their underlying need, which hopefully
> suffers less from those problems.
>
> Maybe some way to have something along the line of autoloads but that
> instead of loading the Elisp code from a locally installed package, they
> prompt the user explaining that this functionality requires installing
> package FOO, etc?
>
>
>         Stefan
>

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