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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [partially solved]
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:00:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf94p5ah.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnsos0eo.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

Hi Uwe,

> What's about these package that require an older version of auctex?

They don't actually require old versions but they state just the minimum
version they need, and in effect the current version would be installed.
That is, you couldn't define a package that depends on auctex => 11.87
but smaller than 13.

>> I guess there's also some way to teach package.el that it should assume
>> some package is already installed in order to stop it from installing
>> another version due to dependencies but I don't know it from the top of
>> my head.
>
> I recall we discussed that somehow in the past (and I did not put the
> conclusion in my remember.org file sigh)

Yeah, I think we've talked about that.

Bye,
Tassilo




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-25 19:51 Ubuntu 16.04 compiled GNU master, today, various problems, macro-expansion and (void-variable nonascii-insert-offset) Uwe Brauer
2021-04-26 12:05 ` [partially solved] (was: Ubuntu 16.04 compiled GNU master, today, various problems, macro-expansion and (void-variable nonascii-insert-offset)) Uwe Brauer
2021-04-26 12:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-26 13:58   ` [partially solved] Stefan Monnier
2021-04-26 14:28     ` Tassilo Horn
2021-04-26 15:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-26 20:44       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27  5:33         ` Tassilo Horn
2021-04-27  6:32           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27  7:00             ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2021-04-27  6:43           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27  6:21       ` [Some tests] (was: [partially solved]) Uwe Brauer
2021-04-26 20:41     ` [partially solved] Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27  6:53     ` [shadchen and lsp-mode] (was: [partially solved]) Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27 13:25 ` Ubuntu 16.04 compiled GNU master, today, various problems, macro-expansion and (void-variable nonascii-insert-offset) Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 20:47   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27 20:50   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-04-27 22:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-28 13:37       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-05-03  1:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-03  1:51           ` Stefan Monnier

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