From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: What exactly does "installing a package" mean?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:32:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnbll6b9.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
Hi all,
do I get it correctly that "installing a package" means that Emacs
creates a certain subdirectory of `package-user-dir' and puts the
relevant file(s) there - and that's it?
In particular, is deleting a subdirectory of `package-user-dir' enough
to uninstall the package? Is moving its subdirectory somewhere else,
restarting Emacs, then copying it back again and restarting again
equivalent to uninstalling and then installing again?
The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to get rid of the mess I managed
to introduce in `package-user-dir', but OTOH this mess is working, and
I don't want to break something accidentally, or rather, I want to have
a simple way to rollback any changes.
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next reply other threads:[~2015-10-26 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-26 20:32 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-10-26 21:31 ` What exactly does "installing a package" mean? Kevin W. van Rooijen
2015-10-26 23:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-10-27 0:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-27 0:31 ` Kevin W. van Rooijen
[not found] ` <mailman.1106.1445904123.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-27 14:28 ` Joost Kremers
2015-10-28 1:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-27 1:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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