From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org 9.2.6 and org 9.1.9
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:43:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8325B7BB-3213-4C8D-9925-E6621695918D@traduction-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh82qqa0y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Thank you Stefan. I'll try to reproduce the issue and then I'll report.
Jean-Christophe
> On Nov 27, 2019, at 12:24, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> What should happen is that
>> 1) packages.el should see that I'm trying to install a package that requires
>> 9.2.6 as a dependency and it should notify me that 9.1.9 is already
>> installed and do I really want to do that, etc.
>>
>> 2) *or* just consider that it's better for me to use 9.2.6 instead of
>> whatever comes with emacs and make sure that the older package is forgotten
>> by emacs.
>
> I think 2 is the right option. package.el was designed such that you
> can have various versions of a given package installed. Only one of the
> can be activated at any given time, because Emacs Lisp doesn't provide any
> way to do better, but having both Org-9.1.9 and Org-9.2.6 installed
> should be a perfectly normal situation.
>
> Any misbehavior that results from this should be reported as a bug
> (especially if it can be reproduced).
>
>
> Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-27 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-24 13:37 org 9.2.6 and org 9.1.9 Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-26 19:15 ` Nick Dokos
2019-11-26 21:41 ` Tim Cross
2019-11-27 2:59 ` Cook, Malcolm
2019-11-27 3:13 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-27 6:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-27 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-27 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-27 17:20 ` Cook, Malcolm
2019-11-27 21:51 ` Tim Cross
2019-11-27 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-27 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-26 23:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-27 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-27 5:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2019-11-27 6:00 ` Tim Cross
2019-11-27 6:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-27 6:42 ` Tim Cross
2019-11-27 10:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-27 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-27 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-27 7:04 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-11-27 6:34 ` Stefan Kangas
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