From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el dependencies Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422045649 22071 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 20:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 21:40:49 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 1YEl28-00068F-Ce for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:40:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEl27-0002DX-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEl22-0002C1-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEl1x-00034H-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:38880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEl1w-00034D-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:37 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFA28515E; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE1F1E5B8C; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DF92BB4102; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:181695 Archived-At: > 1) Prevent (or warn) deleting a package if it is already used by another > package as dependency. That'd be nice. > 2) Store a list of packages installed explicitely (not as dependency) > and provide an autoremove function such as apt-get autoremove. I already asked for help writing that (not much luck so far, tho), so yes, that'd be very welcome, Stefan