Re: A small use-package puzzle

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

"R. Clayton" <factotum@rclayton.org> writes:

> I'm wondering how this can happen:

When it comes to understanding macro expansion, I find macrostep-expand
(from the package macrostep) quite invaluable.

If the value of `use-package-always-ensure' is t , use-package is
behaving as expected.  Keywords such as `:if' are meant to _load_
packages conditionally.  As noted in the [manual]:

#+begin_quote
  If you need to make a use-package form conditional so that the condition
  occurs before even ‘:ensure’ (*note Install package::) or ‘:preface’
  (*note Preface keyword::), use ‘when’ around the ‘use-package’ form
  itself.  For example:

       (when (memq window-system '(mac ns))
         (use-package foo
           :ensure t))
#+end_quote

[manual]: [[info:use-package#Conditional loading]]

-- 
Suhail