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))