From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Subject: Re: [elpa] elpa-admin 1d766451f8: Suggest `package-install' to install packages (bug#63800)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:51:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fea58d60-3895-a855-393e-854d80270912@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwmz4c78b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 13/07/2023 15:51, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> But this should be motivated by a preference, not by a bug (which we
> should fix instead)
The bug was in the instructions: for every package we say that they can
install it by using 'M-x package-install'.
But there is no sense to do that for built-in packages: they are already
installed, so package-install predictably says so instead of upgrading
to an external version.
Emacs 29 now has a user option to change the latter behavior (which IMHO
is not the right direction to solve this), but even so, it's off by
default, and the ELPA website needs to have instructions which will work
in the previous versions of Emacs.
Basically, see the previous discussions.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-14 16:51 UTC|newest]
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2023-07-13 12:51 ` [elpa] elpa-admin 1d766451f8: Suggest `package-install' to install packages (bug#63800) Stefan Monnier
2023-07-13 13:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-14 19:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-07-15 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-07-14 16:51 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
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