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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Can list-packages be set up to show latest github emacs packages? |
Date: | Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:46:39 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> Oh. So you want el-get but those get-recipes to be maintained for you. I >>> would talk to the el-get maintainers. SM> I think another part of the request makes sense: integrate this with SM> package.el. I.e. package.el could provide some way to hook in non-ELPA SM> sources of packages (including browsing them via list-packages and SM> installing/ activating them). > I agree, but it would have to be clearly separated, so users are not > thinking those are ELPA-style packages. Maybe a separate section? I'd expect the hook to take place by adding non-ELPA "archives", so the current display of the archive's name should be sufficient. Why should the user care so much about which protocol is used to talk to the archive? Stefan
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