;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;;; ohai-package.el --- Package system configuration. ;; Copyright (C) 2015 Bodil Stokke ;; Author: Bodil Stokke ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with this program. If not, see . ;;; Code: ;; `(online?)` is a function that tries to detect whether you are online. ;; We want to refresh our package list on Emacs start if we are. (require 'cl) (defun online? () (if (and (functionp 'network-interface-list) (network-interface-list)) (some (lambda (iface) (unless (equal "lo" (car iface)) (member 'up (first (last (network-interface-info (car iface))))))) (network-interface-list)) t)) ;; Emacs comes with a package manager for installing more features. ;; The default package repository doesn't contain much, so we tell it ;; to use a few more: MELPA and Marmalade. (setq package-user-dir (concat dotfiles-dir "elpa")) (require 'package) (dolist (source '(("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") ("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))) (add-to-list 'package-archives source t)) ;; To get the package manager going, we invoke its initialise function. (package-initialize) ;; If we're online, we attempt to fetch the package directories if ;; we don't have a local copy already. This lets us start installing ;; packages right away from a clean install. (when (online?) (unless package-archive-contents (package-refresh-contents))) ;; We're going to try to declare the packages each feature needs as we ;; define it. To do this, we define a function `(package-require)` ;; which will fetch and install a package from the repositories if it ;; isn't already installed. Eg. to ensure the hypothetical package ;; `ponies` is installed, you'd call `(package-require 'ponies)`. (defun package-require (pkg) "Install a package only if it's not already installed." (when (not (package-installed-p pkg)) (package-install pkg))) (provide 'ohai-package)