From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
Cc: 63563@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63563: 29.0.91; package.el should not install unselected packages
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:30:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834jnrc9xq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lycz2ff8c3.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Howard Melman on Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:36:28 -0400)
> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:36:28 -0400
>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > It turns out this behavior is new in Emacs 29, see bug#40457 and NEWS.
> > Since the new behavior is incompatible with the old one, I have now
> > added a new user option, package-menu-use-current-if-no-marks, to get
> > back the old behavior, and mentioned it in NEWS. You can now
> > customize that option to a nil value to get what you want.
>
> Should the default value of
> package-menu-use-current-if-no-marks be nil?
>
> That would follow the convention of old behavior being
> unchanged unless the user does something to enable the new
> behavior.
The discussion about that should have happened a year ago, when this
change was made. Since it haven't, we cannot just undo what's been
done a year ago and didn't receive any complaints until now. Sorry,
we will have to make do with at least the possibility to go back to
the old behavior.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-01 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-18 2:10 bug#63563: 29.0.91; package.el should not install unselected packages Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2023-05-18 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-18 19:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-29 0:51 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2023-05-29 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-29 13:57 ` Jimmy Wong
2023-05-29 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 16:36 ` Howard Melman
2023-06-01 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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