Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Thibaut Verron]

Le dim. 11 oct. 2020 à 20:47, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> a écrit :
>
> * Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> [2020-10-11 21:28]:
> > > It would be great if melpa.org didn't require Javascript for
> > > functionality, at all. But that is just my opinion.
> > >
> > > It is not possible to browse packages on M-x eww, for example. Perhaps a
> > > fallback would be nice.
> >
> > M-x list-packages ?
>
> It is possible that MELPA webmaster have setup that website with
> intention not to let Emacs users browse packages through Emacs, but to
> force them to install MELPA into Emacs
>
> As the link to packages list is impossible to reach, but the link on
> how to add MELPA to Emacs is quite reachable through Emacs.

I think you're making an unfair "trial of motives" here.

You can add Melpa to the list of repositories in an emacs instance and
then browse it with list-packages. That will not "install Melpa" if
you don't add the repository line in your init.el.

For the record, here is the (short) discussion on the topic:
https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/3483