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: package.el dependencies Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:16 +0100 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422020262 21574 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 13:37:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:37:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 14:37:37 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 1YEeQb-0003mu-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeQa-0003vK-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:37:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeQW-0003v0-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeQR-0004zU-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:37:32 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeQR-0004zA-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:37:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeQP-0003et-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:25 +0100 Original-Received: from 37.160.178.68 ([37.160.178.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:25 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 37.160.178.68 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 37.160.178.68 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vHQtCynLaorHfCHs7jlSguYDGnk= 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:181672 Archived-At: Hi, is there something planned to handle dependencies in package.el? 1) Prevent (or warn) deleting a package if it is already used by another package as dependency. 2) Store a list of packages installed explicitely (not as dependency) and provide an autoremove function such as apt-get autoremove. -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997