From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el dependencies Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:46:11 +0200 Message-ID: <54C250A3.6030803@yandex.ru> References: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422020798 30353 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 13:46:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:46:38 +0000 (UTC) To: Thierry Volpiatto , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 14:46:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1YEeZJ-0001P4-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:46:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59053 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeZI-000533-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:46:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeZ3-00052l-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeYx-0000Bi-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::236]:40147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeYx-0000Be-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:46:15 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id l61so7616049wev.13 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:46:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vDviIJNklPTCWyRQKHY6INziJKcbFuqU5+4IdnLQCac=; b=NSkROQNOHiWY3WmnuaNSFEPw9sjMSYTznE/sTRpeiJEXkzs6wnIv1NilTZHQx03fAW MtN8EB37USiNxaa4PXoSI4vcyNIQwXhribCjHJCZMV2lLAPbbUXoLztIQBvUxkYwEnAG qXzdd6djaDoo3OGDIdr0Ikxl27Y06od2s9MX+OYaYucSHwJe4c16wvizD809bQte/oCQ W2p2r3/4syB50JU0A/jSDb7BlSJLDBTrVVDk/YUeVcToziL6qXn3BXBbU8LewblLtyXw XuUkwvU+LDT7Vpsczv//JXuRmgQws/52FIETBOr+QCejzB7d6NleJTtGSM/xztTi28ua NdTw== X-Received: by 10.194.89.3 with SMTP id bk3mr14621314wjb.92.1422020774500; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:46:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([82.102.93.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hl1sm2290083wjc.18.2015.01.23.05.46.13 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:46:14 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/33.0 In-Reply-To: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181674 Archived-At: On 01/23/2015 03:37 PM, Thierry Volpiatto wrote: > is there something planned to handle dependencies in package.el? Only in the sense of "would be cool if someone worked on that", AFAIK. > 1) Prevent (or warn) deleting a package if it is already used by another > package as dependency. > > 2) Store a list of packages installed explicitely (not as dependency) > and provide an autoremove function such as apt-get autoremove. #2 was discussed a bit not too long ago.