From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages with Emacs - what are we missing?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:09:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h7s5qlea.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv7dt1gxtt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
On Thu 10 Sep 2020, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> It might help if there was a mechanism to freeze packages, so no
>> upgrades are suggested for packages that are frozen.
>
> There's a mechanism to control which version of a package is used
> (i.e. `package-load-list`). We could/should refrain from auto-updating
> package whose version is "frozen" this way.
>
> Note that the purpose of `package-load-list` is not to prevent
> installing other versions, but to prevent *activating* other versions.
The term "activate" is used many times wrt packages, but is not
defined anywhere. How are users meant to understand what it means ?
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-08 21:53 Bundling GNU ELPA packages with Emacs - what are we missing? Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 8:59 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-10 19:49 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-10 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-10 23:09 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2020-09-11 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-11 10:07 ` Andy Moreton
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