From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 11410@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11410: 24.1.50; package.el `emacs' package information is broken
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 12:06:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehqyj6lu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr4uy3gy1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 05 May 2012 09:23:16 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Surely the idea is for packages to refuse to even *install* under Emacs
>> versions where they won't work (package.el displays an "emacs x.x not
>> available" in this case.)
> [...]
>> That seems like a useful feature to me.
>
> Preventing users to do what they want doesn't sound useful to me
All the same, previous versions of package.el did handle the `emacs'
package, and the current version not doing so is a bug. I've committed
a fix to trunk.
I agree that there should be an easy way to tell the package manager to
ignore package dependencies, but such a mechanism should apply to all
packages and not just the `emacs' package.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-06 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 11:24 bug#11410: 24.1.50; package.el `emacs' package information is broken Toby Cubitt
2012-05-05 12:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 12:52 ` Toby Cubitt
2012-05-05 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 14:51 ` Toby Cubitt
2012-05-06 4:06 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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