Re: [announce] The new website for GNU ELPA is online

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Nicolas,

On 01.12.2016 01:30, Nicolas Petton wrote:

> The new website for GNU ELPA is (finally!) online at
>
>   https://elpa.gnu.org

Thank you for the new design, it a definite improvement.

A couple of notes:

- The logo (both versions) looks a little blurry to me, like the text's 
edges in "ξlpa" are less definite than in "GNU Emacs Lisp Package 
Archive" below it. Although that might have everything to do with me 
using a 4K monitor.

- The phrase "Since you'll probably want to use your installed packages, 
..." is a bit jarring.

First, you _can_ use most of the packages (maybe not all (?), but close) 
without that, as long as you limit the relevant configuration to 
add-hook, eval-after-load, setq and auto-mode-alist entries.

In fact, I recommend adding `global-company-mode' (a global mode 
function) to `after-init-hook' instead of evaluating it directly. That 
works whether (package-initialize) is in the user's init script, or not.

But if we do consider it a good practice, writing about it in a "by the 
way" fashion on ELPA's website seems odd. A technical solution seems in 
order.