Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> writes:

> On 23/12/15 at 02:51am, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> > A bug remains:
>> >
>> > 1. mkdir /tmp/foo
>> > 2. Evaluate:
>> >
>> >   (save-place-mode)
>> >   (package-initialize)
>> 
>> Do you see the same bug without using save-place-mode?
>
> Oh, of course. Woops.
>
>> > 3. M-x package-install-file RET /tmp/foo RET
>> 
>> I wonder why are you trying yo install a package from the empty directory?
>
> Just trying to break things is all.

So we just need a better error message here?  Something like this: