Re: Supporting multiline Package-Requires header

[Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>]

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I'd love to be able to just add several "Package-Requires" lists, as this
would be most visually appealing and easiest to read. At any rate -
something has to be done about long dependency lists, as they look quite
ridiculous right now.

On 10 August 2015 at 16:08, Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Indeed. But it's only accidentally a sexp, in the sense that it's not
> > actually a sexp in the buffer -- it's a comment.
>
> It's a commented-out sexp, but it's still a sexp, and it has to be a valid
> one.
>
> > What is the failure behaviour of package.el for this at the moment?
>
> Package.el will signal an error during installation if it's not a
> valid sexp. The error itself will depend on what the problem is.
> Here's what you get if you miss a closing paren for instance:
>     package-read-from-string: End of file during parsing
>
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