Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>>> If we really can't find a better option, we need to add a bunch of
>>> comments explaining why we ended up with such a hack.
>>
>> It seems that it is only necessary to bind `package-alist' during the
>> invocation of `package--used-elsewhere-p', so this is a more
>> conservative proposal:
>
> Any chance we could add a unit test for this?  It's been a while since I
> last looked at package-tests.el.
>
> Other than that, LGTM.

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