Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Arthur Miller]

dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com> writes:

> SM> Admittedly, `elpa-admin.el` doesn't provide that "out of the box", but I'd
> SM> welcome changes to improve this use case.  It go become an alternative to
> SM> `straight.el`.
>
> I was hoping ELPASO (https://github.com/dickmao/elpaso) would be the
> elpa-admin-aware alternative to straight.  I do appreciate that "not invented 
> here"
> is reason enough not to look into someone else's project.

Never heard of Elpaso before. What is the advantage compared to
straight?

While I think it is convenient to be able to install directly from Git,
a centralized reviewed source is also at least some security safety
net. Elisp can do anything on your harddrive. Download any source from
wild wild web does infere  some security risks too.