From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What exactly does "installing a package" mean? Date: 27 Oct 2015 14:28:39 GMT Message-ID: References: <87bnbll6b9.fsf@mbork.pl> <87d1w15nax.fsf@attichacker.com> <87611tkxij.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445956238 21398 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 14:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:30:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 15:30:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr5Gi-00079X-3D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:30:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60006 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr5Gh-0007uO-Fy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:30:31 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net arc8xMUqnCw5f7T1apHRgAo3R4cqLVJYe7dm5xS4JAJ9v6vFJI Cancel-Lock: sha1:EGnDD1sNz9oqJGPBgPQX8Ijy6ac= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215555 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107841 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > But, to answer your question, no, there is nothing to > it but files and directories, just like everything > else on a Unix system. Well, that's a bit of a naive statement. Of course it's all files and directories, the question is, *which* files and directories. If Emacs were to keep a list of installed packages and would save this list to, say, `~/.emacs.d`, then it would still be "all files and directories", but as an Emacs user, you might still run into trouble if you delete a package from `package-user-dir` but do not update the file containing the list of installed packages. For example, if you remove the files of a package xyz on a Debian(-based) system, dpkg will still think xyz installed, because its own database still says it is. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)