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[76.168.148.233]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r8-20020a17090a454800b00267f1455d60sm1767882pjm.20.2023.08.04.10.08.08 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Aug 2023 10:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:266698 Archived-At: On 8/4/2023 8:15 AM, Raoul Comninos wrote: > I am encountering a peculiar issue with Emacs's package management > system where it is falsely recommending the removal of packages that I > have explicitly installed via package-install. One such example is the > markdown-mode package. > > I have installed the affected packages explicitly using M-x > package-install, so they are not dependencies. Emacs considers a package to be explicitly installed if (and only if, I think) it's listed in 'package-selected-packages'. Make sure the value of this variable is what you expect. If it's not, make sure your configuration is loading variables that were set by the Customize interface; when installing packages interactively, 'package-selected-packages' is set via the Customize code. > How does package-autoremove decide which packages to remove? 'package-autoremove' will remove a package if a) it's not in 'package-selected-packages' and b) nothing else in 'package-selected-packages' depends on it.