On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 02:10 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:

> > (package-install #s(package-desc flymake
> >                 (1 0 1)
> >                 "A universal on-the-fly syntax checker"
> >                 ((emacs
> >                   (26 1)))
> >                 single "gnu" nil
> >                 ((:url . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/flymake.html")
> >                  (:keywords "c" "languages" "tools"))
> >                 nil))
>
> You can try something like
>
>     (package-install (cadr (assoc 'flymake package-archive-contents)))
>
> which should be a bit less brittle.
>

Oh thanks, that's much nicer!

Should it be a separate function? Package-install-most-recent or package
upgrade?

João

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