From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, nick@nicksavage.ca, 39553@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39553: 28.0.50; ada mode was removed
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:13:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmVArCn8_KkwYKkih5XBCMovbeaLFCqyGmCCBT=eraOUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zh60l1xp.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Doesn't package.el maintain some information about packages being
> installed?
AFAIK, it just uses whatever is in your `package-directory-list'.
> If so, how and where do you maintain that information for packages
> that come from the tarball?
Good question, I'd need to look into the details.
> IOW, packages installed by package.el go to a special directory and
> are handled specially by the startup code, something that is not true
> for a built-in package. This needs rectifying in some way. I don't
> know enough about package.el to give more specific and detailed
> advice, sorry.
I thought this was okay, since this is initialized in the early init
file? But I might be overlooking something.
Maybe we should ask on emacs-devel what the hurdles are, because there
seems to be some possibly subtle problems here that I don't fully
understand. It would be good to get this to work, if possible...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-10 20:30 bug#39553: 28.0.50; ada mode was removed Tom Tromey
2020-02-17 20:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-23 13:15 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <87pn4h9kcp.fsf@tromey.com>
2020-11-13 21:42 ` bug#39553: Fwd: " Paul Eggert
2020-11-14 11:27 ` bug#39553: [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2020-09-07 20:33 ` Nicholas Savage
2020-09-07 20:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-08 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 7:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 8:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-09-08 10:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-08 12:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 14:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 15:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 16:13 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-09-08 17:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-08 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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