Re: package.el dependencies

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> There are, though, two important issues I see, so I'd like to raise
> them now.

After reading again this mail, I am not sure I agree with you on both
points.

> This will prevent deletion of obsolete depencies (packages which are
> dependencies but have a more recent version installed). To fix that,
> PKG in this function needs to be a package-desc object, and the
> function needs to be altered as follows.

Can you explain this with a real life example ?

> IIUC, this will remove a package from packages-installed-directly if
> it is not currently installed. That seems undesirable, and would be
> fixed by simply removing this call to `customize-save-variable'.

And I disagree on this one.

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