Re: Auto-installing packages?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes. Although, in this case, I have put the packages I want to install
> into my .emacs.  So not "silent" at that point. I am doing something
> concrete.

Not "am doing": "have done".  It's quite different.
A big part of the prompt is to ask whether we should do it *now*.

> It's easy to add, although I suspect answering "Y" would become part of
> the muscule memory.

I doubt it (it's supposed to be something that occurs rarely, so muscle
memory probably wouldn't come into play), but in any case I don't think
it's a problem if it builds into someone's muscle memory.

> I forget how package.el works, but it inherits behaviour from that. So,
> it will update the package-list (i.e. call home) if your .emacs.d/elpa
> is empty.

It doesn't do asynchronously, currently.
It only does it in response to something like `M-x package-list-packages`.
[ And IIUC it currently doesn't do it in response to `M-x
  package-install` even it probably should.  ]


        Stefan