Re: using use-package

[Edward Knyshov]

So if we do not use cider, we still can use company in some other modes,
because they also could :require company

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM Edward Knyshov <edvorg@gmail.com> wrote:

> From my point of view cider couldn't be configured without company mode,
> because some features lays on it, but company could.
> That's why company is dependency of cider in this example. That's why
> company is single req-package form and cider is dependent form.
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:28 AM Nikolay Kudryavtsev <
> nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Edward.
>>
>> It's not about the practical problem of setting up cider and company.
>> Its about the generic problem of which cider and company is just one
>> example.
>>
>> Req-package makes our configuration for cider depend on our
>> configuration for company-mode. This is a working solution in practice,
>> but to me it seems wrong from a theoretical standpoint, since it mingles
>> too much together. The original reasoning for use-package is separating
>> package configurations into separate forms for every single package. But
>> cases like this create multi-package forms, since our configuration for
>> cider also sets up some stuff for company mode. A better (theoretical)
>> solution is to have another macro specifically for situations like this.
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Nikolay Kudryavtsev
>>
>>