From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: alex <current@protonmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:10:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h9h8vuxw.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pnYT4PdXkR9nkJwiKRUmQG3O0eqqRtO16uYqsb6sHa1Mp8L9QVaE4u4vBT60QmPsNL5fI2klLXTwh3Pn-aBZ3Q==@protonmail.com> (alex's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:39:48 -0500")
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>>>>> alex <current@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hello, the 25.0.91 pretest version seems great so far. I like the dependency
> tracking in package.el.
> Unfortunately whenever I install/update packages, it saves
> `package-selected-packages' to my customize file. This is a bit annoying as I
> share my config with git across multiple machines that have different packages
> installed.
> While I could alter the definition of `package--save-selected-packages'
> myself, I'd think it would be nicer if there was a user option to toggle
> this behaviour. The default initialization of `all non-dependencies' seems
> to be what I'd always want anyway.
This sounds like a reasonable request to me; and I sympathize with emitting
such generated data to a potentially user-controlled file. Maybe this data
could go into another file entirely?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 3:39 Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'? alex
2016-02-17 4:10 ` John Wiegley [this message]
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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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
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 18:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-19 4:17 ` alex
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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
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