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> > >After that, you may wish to load the code of that package, or arrange
> > >for it to be loaded on other occasions in the future, or you may not.
> > >We should provide easy ways to do those things if you want to, but we
> > >shouldn't impose those things on you by default just because you
> > >asked to see those sources in a repo.
> > >
>
> > In that case we are simply talking about different things.
>
> We're talking about the same thing, but looking at it from two
> different angles.
For certain values of "same thing" ^^
> You want to do two things together: to check out source from the
> upstrean repo, and set up to use that version by default in Emacs.
> Now you've added a command to check it out and not do anything else.
I want to offer the ability to do two things together. So you can now
either
M-x package-vc-install foo
and have everything taken care of, or
M-x package-vc-checkout foo path/to/some/directory
M-x package-vc-link-directory path/to/some/directory
to do the same using two separate steps.
> I see them as conceptually separate. I think we should have a command
> to check out source from the upstrean repo and no more. And then
> a command to activate that version for use.
And that is provided.
> It's not a crucial difference. Either way, the user can check it out
> with or without activation.
Right.
> If we include checking out the ELPA repo, then we have four
> possibilities: check out the ELPA repo, check it out and activate it,
> check out the upstream repo, and check it out and activate it.
>
> Then there is an advantage in separating checkout and activation.
> Then we need only two checkout commands (the upstream repo and the
> ELPA repo), and one activate command that can activate either repo.
>
> But it's not a problem if that has to be done with four commands.
As you can see above, I've solved it with a three commands, where
`package-vc-install' and `package-vc-checkout' both take a prefix
argument if you want to checkout the revision of the latest release.
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