From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>,
Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at>,
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package-autoremove ?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:54:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmxjsdrf.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyzbqzbm.fsf@gnu.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:40:34 +0200")
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
}> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
>>>> For me, this situation comes up when I install a package via
>>>> `(use-package ... :ensure t)' instead of via `list-packages'.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good possibility for me as well. Someone should adjust
>>> use-package to add the package to package-selected-packages for this
>>> reason. My Lisp isn't that good.
>>
>> The :ensure keyword for use-package should select the packages, since
>> it invokes `package-install' without setting the optional DONT-SELECT
>> argument (use-package-ensure.el):
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ...
>> (if (assoc package package-archive-contents)
>> (package-install package)
>> (package-refresh-contents)
>> (when (assoc package (bound-and-true-p
>> package-pinned-packages))
>> (package-read-all-archive-contents))
>> (package-install package))
>> ...
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> What might be an issue, is that package-install tries to save the
>> modification of `package-selected-packages' to disk (package.el):
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (if after-init-time
>> (customize-save-variable 'package-selected-packages package-selected-packages)
>> (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'package--save-selected-packages))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Now if you have customised `custom-file' and/or don't load the
>> contents of the file, then upon restarting Emacs the updated value
>> would be lost and package-autoremove would suggest removing all the
>> packages installed by use-package (but also package-install, for that
>> matter).
>
> Very good analysis. I'm also affected by that issue and indeed, I have
> customized custom-file, because I use the very same user-init-file on
> multiple machines but put minor machine-related tweaks in custom-file.
> Basically, my user-init-file starts with:
>
> (setopt custom-file (expand-file-name
> "custom.el"
> (if user-init-file
> (file-name-directory user-init-file)
> "~/.emacs.d/")))
What is the point of this check? FWIW my init.el starts with
(load (setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file "custom.el")) t)
and I have never had issues with it.
> (load custom-file t)
> Now on two machines which should have pretty much the same emacs setup
> (pretty current git master with the same init.el containing the same
> use-package with :ensure t statements), package-autoremove suggests
> different removal sets. The union of both sets contains many packages
> installed by use-package which are certainly wrong.
I have little to no experience with use-package, so I am not the best
person to help here. Have you reported this behaviour as a bug?
> It would be great if that could be fixed.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-25 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-22 4:00 package-autoremove ? David Masterson
2023-08-22 12:17 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-08-25 4:52 ` David Masterson
2023-08-25 7:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-25 8:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-08-25 8:54 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-08-25 8:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-08-25 12:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-08-26 2:01 ` David Masterson
2023-08-26 1:50 ` David Masterson
2023-08-26 12:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-03 4:35 David Masterson
2020-09-03 6:38 ` Pankaj Jangid
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