* bug#23346: 25.1.50; package.el silently installs package dependencies
@ 2016-04-23 16:17 Ian Dunn
2022-05-13 13:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ian Dunn @ 2016-04-23 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 23346
For instance, if I request to install trie, I will be asked in the minibuffer if I want to install it. That's fine, but then all of its dependencies are installed without asking. Would it be possible to do a dependency check before prompting the user?
In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
of 2016-04-11 built on escafil
Repository revision: 435da5d2955ce35be4785b7d46566ed9b42ea9fb
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000
System Description: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Configured using:
'configure --with-modules --with-xwidgets CC=gcc
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/:'
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
--
Ian Dunn
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* bug#23346: 25.1.50; package.el silently installs package dependencies
2016-04-23 16:17 bug#23346: 25.1.50; package.el silently installs package dependencies Ian Dunn
@ 2022-05-13 13:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2022-05-13 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Dunn; +Cc: 23346
Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org> writes:
> For instance, if I request to install trie, I will be asked in the
> minibuffer if I want to install it. That's fine, but then all of
> its dependencies are installed without asking. Would it be
> possible to do a dependency check before prompting the user?
I've now added this to Emacs 29.
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