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luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca> writes:

> I think it would be nice to have some sort of functionality
> built-into emacs that would allow the upgrading of packages through
> emacs (similar to the reporter package for reporting bugs). I
> envision A sort of registry that all packages would register with
> (when loaded into emacs) and then when the user typed "M-x
> upgrade-package", a buffer containing a list of all registered
> packages would appear and clicking on it would begin the download of
> the latest package.
> 
> Is this too far fetched or am I just being lazy?

Something like this is being discussed on the XEmacs mailing lists.
It would certainly be useful.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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