Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> writes: > Loris Bennett writes: > >> Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> writes: >> >>> "Loris Bennett" <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> writes: >>> >>>> I didn't know about this function either. Is it correct that the org >>>> parts of 'org-plus-contrib' shadow the whole of 'org', e.g. >>>> >>>> ... >>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org hides >>>> /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/org >>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org-install hides >>>> /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/org-install >>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-mscgen hides >>>> /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/ob-mscgen >>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org-archive hides >>>> /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/org-archive >>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-tangle hides >>>> /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/ob-tangle >>>> ... >>>> >>>> plus hundreds of similar shadowings? >>> >>> That's shadowing the Org files distributed with Emacs; you want that. :) >> >> D'oh, I copied the wrong bits. This was what I was wondering about: >> >> ... >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ox-md hides >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ox-md >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-lilypond hides >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ob-lilypond >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-ruby hides >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ob-ruby >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-js hides >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ob-js >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org-crypt hides >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/org-crypt >> ... >> >> M-x list-packages shows 'org-plus-contrib' as installed and 'org' as a >> dependency required by >> >> ox-twiki-20170803.1339, org-sticky-header-20170422.2135, >> org-dotemacs-20151119.1022 >> >> So I guess the above packages should allow 'org-plus-contrib' as an >> alternative requirement to 'org', but currently require only 'org', so I >> end up with both installed. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Loris > > This is an artefact of having the two packages. The package system does > not support alternatives. I have posted a few times regarding this. I > don't think it does any harm, but many people will find they have both > org-plus-contrib as well as org installed. The main draw back is that > updates can take longer due to downloading org twice. > > I and others have asked a few times why the packages are structured in > this way, but nobody seems able to provide the rationale. Personally, I > think we should just have an org package and an org-contrib package > which depends on the org package. > > Tim >
So is there a specific reason why there is no 'org-contrib' package without 'org'? Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
