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[O] Unbundling contrib from org-plus-contrib package?


From: Simon Guest
Subject: [O] Unbundling contrib from org-plus-contrib package?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:36:20 +1200

Hiding in the ox-taskjuggler thread is a discussion of some of the problems caused by having contrib bundled up in the org-plus-contrib package.  (See that thread for the details.)

However, a general question remains, as asked by Tim Cross, whom I will quote if I may:

There are also some other alternatives on the emacs-devel list from when
I asked as a general question regarding package.el and dependencies.
Should be noted that this issue is primarily caused because, fro the
package.el perspective, org-plus-contrib is different to the org
package. Other ELPA/MELPA/etc packages have org as a dependency and not
org-plus-contrib. There is no support in package.el for alternative
dependencies.
I would be interested in understanding the rationale for having
org-plus-contrib rather than just an org package and an org-contrib
package? It should be possible to just have an org-contrib package which
depends on an org package (of same version). This would then avoid this
issue. As this is an obvious solution, I suspect there is something
subtle which unpins the rationale to have an org and org-plus-contrib
package approach, but don't know what that is.

So, is there an answer to this good and as-yet unanswered question about unbundling contrib into its own package?

cheers,
Simon


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