Is this new behavior no one asked for configurable? Over the many years I've been using package.el, I've built in muscle memory. After M-x list-packages, when the packages buffer is done refreshing, I immediately press U and x without looking. With the new behavior, when there's no upgrades, I'd be installing the first package at point. Doing that a couple of times will mean I'll have a couple of extra packages I don't want installed.

Jimmy

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 8:53 PM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> tags 63563 notabug
> thanks
>
>> From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 03:10:23 +0100
>>
>> 1. M-x list-packages
>> 2. Press x on a line
>> 3. Observer in the echo area package.el is now asking the user to
>> whether to install the package.
>>
>> Expectation:
>>
>> If the user has not pressed i to select the package for installation,
>> package.el should not ask the user to confirm anything. There's no
>> action to execute. This is unexpected dwim behavior.
>
>>From the Emacs manual:
>
> ‘x’
> Download and install all packages marked with ‘i’, and their
> dependencies; also, delete all packages marked with ‘d’
> (‘package-menu-execute’). This also removes the marks. If no
> packages are marked, this command will install the package under
> point (if it isn’t installed already), or delete the package under
> point (if it’s already installed).
>
> The doc string says similar stuff:
>
> If no packages are marked, the action taken depends on the state
> of the package under point. If it’s not already installed, this
> command will install the package, and if it’s installed, it will
> delete the package.
>
> So this is documented behavior. This is not a bug, but a feature.

That being said, I am not a fan of this DWIM-ish behaviour either.