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Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installe

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:14:43 +0200 
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:15:53 +0000
> 
> > 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.

FWIW, I find the name package-vc-link-directory sub-optimal.  There's
nothing about linking in what it does.  How about

    package-vc-install-from-checkout
or
    package-vc-install-cloned

instead?

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