On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > If you check list-packages you will also not find thingatpt in the list
> of
> > builtins in 24.4 which cannot be correct, right?
>
> Indeed, we don't list all the packages, since most of them have been
> builtin since before ELPA even existed, so for an ELPA package to say
> that it requires thingatpt is kind of pointless.


It maybe pointless. It's just that the behavior has been changed from 24.3
to 24.4

list-packages showed all package--builtins before. Now it only shows the
ones with a version. And any package that has been requiring such an
internal library will fail to install with the new Emacs version.

cheers
steckerhalter