From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:14:37 +0000 Message-ID: <87h9h7zlrm.fsf@yandex.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455704134 28529 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2016 10:15:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:15:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 11:15:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aVz8m-0004x2-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:15:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55975 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVz8l-0003bW-SE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:15:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVz8P-0003Y2-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVz8M-00068y-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40987) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVz8L-00068l-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aVz8H-0004aX-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from host86-175-109-231.range86-175.btcentralplus.com ([86.175.109.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from m43cap by host86-175-109-231.range86-175.btcentralplus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:14:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-175-109-231.range86-175.btcentralplus.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HFQ++Q1I5D15iAGHWPFt6D5PGuo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200079 Archived-At: > Hello, the 25.0.91 pretest version seems great so far. I like the > dependency tracking in package.el. > > Unfortunately whenever I install/update packages, it saves > `package-selected-packages' to my customize file. This is a bit > annoying as I share my config with git across multiple machines that > have different packages installed. > > While I could alter the definition of > `package--save-selected-packages' myself, I'd think it would be nicer > if there was a user option to toggle this behaviour. The default > initialization of `all non-dependencies' seems to be what I'd always > want anyway. For what's it worth, I found the default annoying in the extreme. At the very least, the user should be left in no doubt that his init file has been changed. C. Baxter.