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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
-- 





  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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