Re: No Help Window from *Packages* - No Package Specified Error

[Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>]

On 2/18/20 2:31 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Could you try bisecting either dired+.el or el-get.el (commenting out 1/2,... etc.), to see which part of either (or both) is causing the problem?

Began commenting out below the stack of required expressions. With 
el-get again being required/loaded from init.el, the list-packages help 
window was disabled with the "No package specified" error message 
regardless of the section disabled

Then I commented out all of the required expressions at the top of 
el-get.el and the error went away. Began uncommenting and found that the 
error shows again where

(require 'el-get-methods)

is executed.

May I conclude that it is coming from el-get-methods?

> I'm guessing it's something more general, something used in one or both of those libraries that is not particularly uncommon/bizarre, but that doesn't work well with package.el.  If so, it would be good to know what, and maybe report it to Emacs as a bug, if it's something that should be normal.
>
> (Alternatively, maybe it's something in package.el.)
>
> BTW, is this a new problem, e.g. started happening with a recent version of one or more of the 3 libraries (dired+, el-get, package)?

I use list-packages very infrequently. I also install new versions from 
source regularly as they are introduced as being stable - as in : 
./configure; make; make install

I don't recall what was previous to 26.3 because it has been overwritten 
as /usr/local/bin but it was at that version that I first noticed it.

thanks

>
> Thx - Drew
>
>> It appears to me that the following two packages:
>> (require 'package)
>> (require 'el-get)
>> are causing the problem.
>>
>> So, with dired+ loaded and the two packages above loaded, I do not get a
>> *Help* window when I click on a link to a package in the *Packages*
>> window, which is invoked from Alt-x list-packages.
>>
>> With (require 'dired+) commented out, I will get the *Help* window.
>>
>> With dired+ loaded; package el-get disabled I will get the *Help* window.
>>
>> So, I guess I will go with dired+ enabled, 'packages and 'el-get
>> disabled and the issue appears to be solved.

-- 
Tim
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