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From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: package-autoremove (was: Package installation messages)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 17:11:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-Lq0X6io7ZNo+1EkURpBpUx3m+X2yRAuBtot5QK+bahYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY271YLONvQTQs5ZJk74d2i+erV4TzQt0SeNRK5K+_CqLg@mail.gmail.com>

Then it sounds like we have a bug. I think I introduced it when
reverting the async stuff.
I just pushed a fix, could you try again with the latest master?

2015-05-21 16:06 GMT+01:00 Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>:
> About 2) the use-package forms happen after I load custom-file.
>
> I just manually deleted those 3 packages and reinstalled them from the
> package manager and then M-x package-autoremove displayed "Nothing to
> autoremove". But I noticed that that process did not update the
> package-selected-packages to the custom.el. I had to manually eval
>
> (package--save-selected-packages (package--find-non-dependencies))
>
> in order to update the custom.el
>
> Before that, of course, after each emacs restart, package.el was trying to
> autoremove those 3 packages.
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:58 AM Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2015-05-21 15:35 GMT+01:00 Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>:
>> > I just updated to the latest commit on emacs master and tried out
>> > package-autoremove.
>> >
>> > That suggested removing 3 packages (symon, minibuffer-line,
>> > git-timemachine), out of which I actually use 2: minibuffer-line,
>> > git-timemachine.
>> >
>> > For example, I have this in my init:
>> >
>> > ;; Display date+time in the minibuffer instead of in the mode-line
>> > (use-package minibuffer-line
>>
>> There are two possibilities for why this happened.
>>
>> 1. The first time you start Emacs after the commit that introduced
>> selected-packages, package.el will try to guess which of your packages
>> were explicitly installed by you, and which were pulled in as deps.
>> It's impossible to know for sure, so this guessing is bound to go
>> wrong on some instances.
>>
>> 2. The list of selected packages is stored with your
>> custom-set-variables. So, if your `use-package' form comes before your
>> `custom-set-variables', then that might cause it to not get stored
>> correctly.
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's a global fix we can do for case 2. Either way,
>> you (the user) can manually fix that by simply trying to install the
>> package you already have (`minibuffer-line', in this case). You can do
>> that from the package menu or with `M-x package-install'. You'll get a
>> message that "package already installed", and then package.el will
>> store this package in your list of `selected-packages'.
>> Another way to fix that is to `M-x customize-variable RET
>> package-selected-packages' and manually add `minibuffer-line' to it.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-21 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-21 14:58 package-autoremove (was: Package installation messages) Artur Malabarba
2015-05-21 15:06 ` Kaushal
2015-05-21 16:11   ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-05-21 17:01     ` Kaushal
2015-05-21 18:05       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-21 18:18         ` Kaushal
2015-05-21 19:23           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-21 20:18             ` Kaushal
2015-05-21 20:24               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-21 20:30                 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-21 20:39                   ` Kaushal

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