Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism

[Chong Yidong]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> The scheme I came up with is to put the keywords into a hash table, also
>> stored in finder-inf.el (further down in the file), which maps keywords
>> to package lists.  True, this is not 100% satisfactory.
>
> A hash table is an optimization.  I think complete information about
> every package should be in the same place to help libraries to process
> package information instead of relying on two separate variables
> `package--builtins' (where double dashes in the variable name mean
> it's an internal variable) and `finder-keywords-hash' whose different
> name prefixes (`package-' and `finder-') are misleading and suggest
> that they are unrelated.

I agree that the prefixes are misleading.  Maybe the computed
package--builtins variable should go into its own file, package-inf.el,
with finder-inf.el used only for storing keywords.