From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:48:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9h5rpx9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56C43D17.7010009@alice.it> <831t8aufoe.fsf@gnu.org> <8737sp51vx.fsf@gmail.com> <83fuwpubpn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455875355 22688 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2016 09:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: alex Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 10:49:09 2016 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 1aWhgS-0002TS-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:49:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50482 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWhgR-0000qg-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:49:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWhgN-0000qa-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWhgK-0003wo-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWhgG-0003wD-Be; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2882 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aWhgF-0001yO-H5; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:48:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from alex on Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:18:30 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:200195 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:18:30 -0500 > From: alex > Cc: Artur Malabarba , johnw@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > So what other options are there? > > At the very least the automatic saving of the package list should be optional, even if it is to the customize file. > Even just a simple defcustom that does that would be helpful. Wouldn't that hamper the operation of package.el next time it is invoked in a new Emacs session? If not, then why do we save this information at all? If it doesn't help, it shouldn't be saved, IMO.