From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el dependencies Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:51:31 +0100 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87twzf2w0c.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> <873871p5vt.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422168710 7201 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2015 06:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:51:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 07:51:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YFH2y-0002y7-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:51:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFH2x-0006JZ-Tz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFH2u-0006JR-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:51:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFH2r-00005v-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFH2q-00005q-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:51:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YFH2n-0002m1-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:51:37 +0100 Original-Received: from lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net ([78.243.104.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:51:37 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:51:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9DC5TU2dbzUV4p6RnfESVpH7sCI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181740 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I don't think we need an alist for that. Simply marking which packages >> were installed explicitly in a plain list should be enough. > > Agreed. Agreed too. >> (In fact, maybe the "instaleed explicitly" flag could be stored in >> `package-alist' too, instead of its own list.) > > You can integrate the data into package-alist, but it needs to be stored > elsewhere since it needs to be stored into a file (my preference is to > store it into a Custom var and rely on Custom to save that into a file). I think too it is the best option. -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997