From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>,
57503@debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#57503: 28.1.91; package-selected-packages should not be saved to custom-file
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:51:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu5mdopn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rmy3wc7.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:16:24 +0200")
>>>>> On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:16:24 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>> Iʼm not convinced thatʼs necessary. I just did the following:
>>
>> 1. emacs-29+my patch, install some packages => no package-selected-packages
>> setting
>> 2. emacs-28, run `package-list-packagesʼ => package-selected-packages
>> is populated with packages set in step 1, and saved in .emacs
Lars> Oh, I didn't know that it was automatically recreated. Then what's the
Lars> point of the variable? According to the doc string:
I guess reading a variable is faster than recursing over the elpa
directory.
Lars> ---
Lars> Store here packages installed explicitly by user.
Lars> ---
Lars> Does 2) there get that right, or does it contain all packages installed,
Lars> explicitly or not?
It contains the packages I installed using 'i' in list-packages, but
not their automatically installed dependencies.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-05 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-31 12:43 bug#57503: 28.1.91; package-selected-packages should not be saved to custom-file Joost Kremers
2022-09-02 13:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-02 13:17 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-02 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-02 14:33 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-03 9:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03 10:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-03 12:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03 15:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-04 10:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-05 7:37 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-05 11:51 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-09-05 13:14 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-06 8:18 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-06 10:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-06 13:49 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-06 14:30 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-06 16:45 ` jakanakaevangeli
2022-09-07 0:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-07 5:38 ` jakanakaevangeli
2022-09-07 9:55 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-07 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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