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From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
To: 44306@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44306: package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:52:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201029125237.t4a5fiwrosfulpev@E15-2016.optimum.net> (raw)

When attempting to perform package-autoremove to clean up obsolete
packages, my emacs would abort with an error that `foo' is a system
package. Thus, it had become impossible to perform the operation. I
altered function package-delete to replace its two calls to function
`error' with simple `message' and can now clean up the packages.

I'm now left with function package-autoremove reporting:

12 packages will be deleted:
session, muttrc-mode, markdown-toc, htmlize, diminish, dictionary,
debian-el, csv-mode, browse-kill-ring, boxquote, bm, magit-popup,
proceed? (y or n) y

All of which are 'system' packages (at least in debian) so they won't
actually be deleted by my hack, but at least the other ~40 were finally
able to be removed.

I have reservations that this hack is a true and correct solution for
the bug because I don't know enough about the 'package package, but it
does seem to do the job...

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             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-29 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-29 12:52 Boruch Baum [this message]
2020-10-30 13:12 ` bug#44306: package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 13:34   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-01  2:48     ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-01 12:44       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-01 14:33         ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-01  2:35   ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-01  2:50     ` Stefan Kangas

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