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From: "Jiří Šebele" <sindriava@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: `package.el' and built-in packages
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:06:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <etPan.56c62435.4783cd7d.813a@Stratovarius.P-661HNU-F3> (raw)

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Hello,

I found out that `package-installed-p’ return non-nil values even for built-in packages, and that `package-install’ does nothing when trying to install a package that’s among those that are built-in. I’ve bumped into this when trying to set up my Emacs config to automatically pull in packages if they are not installed, which in turn failed to install a newer version of Org that the one shipped with Emacs.

To my knowledge the only way to install a newer Org now is to manually click `Install’ in `package-list-packages’, which interferes with my intent to automatically install packages that are not present when Emacs starts up.

I think that `package.el’ should be able to install packages even if they are built-in, since it install them to `~/.emacs.d/elpa’ anyways.

Regards,
– Jiří

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 20:06 Jiří Šebele [this message]
2016-04-12  0:30 ` `package.el' and built-in packages alex
2016-04-12  0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-12  2:10   ` alex
2016-04-12  2:19     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-12 13:07       ` Artur Malabarba
2016-04-12 13:17         ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-14  0:31         ` alex

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