From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com,
angelo.graziosi@alice.it
Subject: Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:49:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb5l664f.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834md5u426.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, Feb 18 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
>> Cc: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>, johnw@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:34:48 +0100
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > I see no fundamental difference
>> > between saving the value of a defcustom and saving the list of
>> > packages the user decided to install.
>>
>> I think the main difference is that as a user, I can decide *not* to use
>> Customize to set a particular defcustom. I can use a setq in my init
>> file instead.
>
> Can't you do the same with the list of installed packages?
Can I? It was my understanding that package.el will write the list of
user-installed packages to custom-set-variables and there's no way for
the user to prevent this from happening. A quick look at the code of
package.el (on emacs-25 and on master) seems to suggest this is indeed
the case: `package--save-selected-packages' is added to
`after-init-hook' and the function itself appears to save the package
list unconditionally.
Or am I overlooking something?
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 9:27 Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-17 23:05 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-18 1:04 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-18 1:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-18 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 17:28 ` Colin Baxter
2016-02-18 17:35 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-18 18:06 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-18 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 20:34 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-18 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 21:49 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-02-19 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 9:47 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-19 13:04 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-19 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 18:29 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-19 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 19:05 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-19 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 23:56 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-22 0:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-22 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 21:00 ` Bastian Beischer
2016-02-19 4:18 ` alex
2016-02-19 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 21:15 ` alex
2016-02-20 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 18:25 ` Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages') Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-18 18:54 ` Mechanisms to persist information Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 19:22 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2016-02-20 2:17 ` Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages') John Wiegley
2016-02-20 4:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-02-18 18:45 ` Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' John Wiegley
2016-02-19 4:17 ` alex
[not found] ` <vYxebPyde_BnqKsA6mXLVX-_dj3rDIchNBYl3O1LxNhGCR7etgi0R4ZR7de5PU1TZXk9R4YsCjNxqkoh5lBR3Q==@protonmail.com>
2016-02-19 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 22:55 ` alex
2016-02-20 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 0:40 ` alex
2016-02-18 16:19 ` raman
2016-02-18 18:55 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-18 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-17 3:39 Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'? alex
2016-02-17 4:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-17 10:02 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-18 16:52 ` Aaron Ecay
2016-02-17 12:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-17 10:14 ` Colin Baxter
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