Re: [partially solved]

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

Hi Uwe,

> What's about these package that require an older version of auctex?

They don't actually require old versions but they state just the minimum
version they need, and in effect the current version would be installed.
That is, you couldn't define a package that depends on auctex => 11.87
but smaller than 13.

>> I guess there's also some way to teach package.el that it should assume
>> some package is already installed in order to stop it from installing
>> another version due to dependencies but I don't know it from the top of
>> my head.
>
> I recall we discussed that somehow in the past (and I did not put the
> conclusion in my remember.org file sigh)

Yeah, I think we've talked about that.

Bye,
Tassilo