Mind-blowing, I don't know of such use cases.

26 марта 2023 г. 10:24:47 UTC, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> пишет:
>Ivan Sokolov <ivan-p-sokolov@ya.ru> writes:
>
>> Nowadays many people keep their configuration under a VCS. I think this
>> new option might help them get tidier diffs and avoid merge conflicts.
>>
>> It might make sense to enable this option by default.
>>
>> From eb996ddc331e34a1c97331768420b9c6dfd30c15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ivan Sokolov <ivan-p-sokolov@ya.ru>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:27:13 +0300
>> Subject: [PATCH] New option for sorting package-selected-packages
>>
>> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-sort-selected-packages): New defcustom.
>> ---
>>  lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el | 12 +++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
>> index 0258ed52bee..1e11be4ab3b 100644
>> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
>> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
>> @@ -404,6 +404,13 @@ a sane initial value."
>>    :version "25.1"
>>    :type '(repeat symbol))
>>  
>> +(defcustom package-sort-selected-packages nil
>> +  "If non-nil interactive functions will sort `package-selected-packages'.
>> +You can use this variable to get a nicer diffs if you keep your
>> +`custom-file' under version control system."
>> +  :version "30.1"
>> +  :type 'boolean)
>>
>>  (defcustom package-native-compile nil
>>    "Non-nil means to natively compile packages as part of their installation.
>>  This controls ahead-of-time compilation of packages when they are
>> @@ -1974,7 +1981,10 @@ Used to populate `package-selected-packages'."
>>  (defun package--save-selected-packages (&optional value)
>>    "Set and save `package-selected-packages' to VALUE."
>>    (when value
>> -    (setq package-selected-packages value))
>> +    (setq package-selected-packages
>> +          (if package-sort-selected-packages
>> +              (sort value #'string<)
>> +            value)))
>
>Why not just always sort it?  Or is there a use-case where keeping the
>"arbitrary" order is preferable?
>
>>    (if after-init-time
>>        (customize-save-variable 'package-selected-packages package-selected-packages)
>>      (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'package--save-selected-packages)))
>
>-- 
>Philip Kaludercic

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