Re: Unboxed package manager

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
> Cc: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>,  gregory@heytings.org,
>   casouri@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:44:32 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > As I already said: you can simply load each package by its explicit
> > absolute name.  Poof! problem disappeared.
> 
> So, the use case is managing packages in your .emacs over time.

Yes, it does.  And it should, IMNSHO.  I actually don't believe that
having hundreds of packages installed doesn't already cause
non-trivial management issues, even with the loading time and the
length of load-path put aside.  You will have compatibility problems
between packages, contradictions and clashes of names, key bindings,
etc.

So it isn't like what I suggest creates problems where previously
there were none.