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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Qiantan Hong <qthong@stanford.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:09:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831r3129ma.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C502136-57BD-40D4-A1E8-A4313AD7CDFC@stanford.edu> (message from Qiantan Hong on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:31:10 +0000)

> From: Qiantan Hong <qthong@stanford.edu>
> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:31:10 +0000
> 
> Then to really update p, one just need to
> 
> (mapc (lambda (feature) (unload-feature feature t)) (package-features p))
> (package-reinstall p)
> (require p)

Is it really 100% safe to unload features, in the sense that reloading
the package will then behave as if Emacs was restarted?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-27 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-27  9:31 PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-27 10:18   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 10:20     ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 12:16 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-27 13:30   ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-27 20:36   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-28  7:22     ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-28  7:51       ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-28  1:04   ` Tim Cross
2021-11-28  4:23     ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-28  5:12     ` Stefan Monnier

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