From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove the build-in orgmode
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:57:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a99pntxp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87egz1vrf0.fsf@Rainer.invalid
Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
> Nick Dokos writes:
>> I did that in the past (presumably for reasons similar to Thorsten's)
>> and I don't bother any longer (overriding is simple enough as you point
>> out), but the question still bugs me: what's so bad about it?
>
> The reason it is bad is that parts of the code have already leaked out
> from the org/ directory via custom-load and autoloads and that's going
> to break things in the least convenient moment – for instance when you
> try to hunt down bugs via "-Q". There simply is no way to remove the
> builtin Org from Emacs other than at build time and it's best not to
> pretend otherwise. Some day Emacs might actually treat its built-in
> packages as actual packages so that you can de-activate or replace them,
> but I wouldn't hold my breath.
That sounds reasonable enough, but somehow that least convenient moment
never happens, while I remember *many* such moments when I still had more
than one Org on my machine ... but maybe I just don't huntdown bugs via
-Q often enough.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-07 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-01 22:22 Remove the build-in orgmode Shiyuan
2014-06-02 6:46 ` Brady Trainor
2014-06-02 7:18 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-06-02 7:26 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-06 14:09 ` Bastien
2014-06-06 16:01 ` Nick Dokos
2014-06-06 18:12 ` Achim Gratz
2014-06-07 5:57 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-06-11 6:05 ` Shiyuan
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