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package-filter.el

Filtering for Emacs package.el.

Obsolete since Emacs 24.4: Users should customize or otherwise modify the new package-pinned-packages variable instead.

The package-filter.el package adds functionality to package.el provided by Emacs to allow creating a whitelist or blacklist of packages for a specific repository. This allows for disabling all packages from a specific repository and only enabling certain packages, or simply blacklist a certain subset of packages.

Configuring

By default there are two variables that can be customized to specify which packages will be enabled (whitelist packages only) or excluded (blacklist of packages)

• package-archive-enable-alist : Optional Alist of enabled packages used by package-filter. The format is (ARCHIVE . PACKAGE ...), where ARCHIVE is a string matching an archive name in package-archives, PACKAGE is a symbol of a package in ARCHIVE to enable. If no ARCHIVE exists in the alist, all packages are enabled.

  If no ARCHIVE exists in the alist, all packages are enabled.

• package-archive-exclude-alist : Alist of packages excluded by package-filter. The format is (ARCHIVE . PACKAGE ...), where ARCHIVE is a string matching an archive name in package-archives, PACKAGE is a symbol of a package in that archive to exclude. Any specified package is excluded regardless of the value of package-archive-enable-alist

  If a particular ARCHIVE has an entry in package-archive-enable-alist then only packages

Manual Installation

You can install the package manually by pasting this into your *scratch* buffer and evaluating it.

(progn
  (switch-to-buffer
   (url-retrieve-synchronously
    "https://raw.github.com/milkypostman/package-filter/master/package-filter.el"))
  (package-install-from-buffer  (package-buffer-info) 'single))