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What's the difference between Emacs's native package distribution method and a cockney guy describing his participation in a torture fetish with his female colleage? (feddit.uk)
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One are ELPA tarballs....

...and the other 'elps 'er tar balls!

(Nailed it. Flawless setup!)

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[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand the joke, but WHY DOES A TEXT EDITOR HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER?

[–] eruwero@ieji.de 3 points 5 months ago

@mech @tetris11 other editors etc. call them plugins, but almost every larger piece of software has some way to install extensions built in

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Cos otherwise you'd be manually patching and eval'ing extensions every time you wanted to extend functionality.

As for explaining the joke, I refuse to -- my comedy genius knows no bounds, and if it can't be appreciated in this era of human civilization then I shall wait until the next