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[PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu

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From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net
Subject: bug#78794: [PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:37:07 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  philipk <at> posteo.net
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:13:00 -0600
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Can you explain what you meant by "New" here?  Then I might be able to
>> > suggest a more clear terminology.
>> 
>> "New" indicates how many packages with the status of "new" are in
>> package menu, according to manual:
>> 
>>   Equivalent to ‘available’, except that the package became newly
>>   available on the package archive after your last invocation of M-x
>>   list-packages.
>
> Alas, this doesn't explain what is meant by "new".  What are the
> conditions for a package to have the "new" status in the menu?  The
> 'available' status is documented as
>
>   ‘available’
>        The package is not installed, but can be downloaded and installed
>        from the package archive.
>
> which I interpret as meaning the package is not installed and can be
> installed.  I cannot understand what "new" means in that case, since
> what shows the packages is the list-packages command.  Maybe you could
> give an example of when a package that will be shown as "new"?

 when a package is added to a package archive, list-packages will
fetch how many packages have been added to all the package archives that
user have and display them first in the package menu.

e.g. A package is added to GNU ELPA and another to NonGNU, the next day
I execute "list-packages", it will display first both packages as "new"
indicating that they were recently added from that package archive, thus
this improves the discoverablility of new packages to the user.

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