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Only a tiny minority of users can't access package repos. They can download the packages at home and mail themselves in a zip file. It's trivial to create a z

Only a tiny minority of users can't access package repos. They can download the packages at home and mail themselves in a zip file. It's trivial to create a zip file containing the necessary files, plus a config elisp file which has the personal customizations.

nickdrozd 7y ago
> Only a tiny minority of users can't access package repos. That sounds like a verifiable claim. Do you have any proof?
- dmortin 7y ago
  Only my personal experience. I never encountered a situation in my professional life where I couldn't access the net. How is it verifiable? Is there some statistics of this?
  - zeveb 7y ago
    You must never have worked on airgapped systems then. Or had to justify non-standard software to gatekeepers.
    - catalogia 7y ago
      Surely workers in airgapped systems are (objectively) a minority, if not a tiny minority ('tiny' is subjective..)
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salawat 7y ago
The problem with that Point of view is discoverability. It's the same issue I have with tweaking Vim to slowly provide some better ergonomics for my projecting, and has honestly been a consistent hurdle even when I was first learning computer suites like Word Processors and other office stuff. I've never done well at navigating the initial humps of learning plugin/package ecosystems. Especially when I can't phrase what it is I'm looking for correctly, and I've grown reluctant to spend excessive amounts of time trying to dedup toolsets because it leads to pristine garage syndrome. You have a system gleaming clean and ready to do things, but you're so exhausted getting things just so, you don't do anything with it. It has nothing to do with the fact I like to blow away and remake systems on a regular basis, I swear. :P