From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What exactly does "installing a package" mean? Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:11:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bnbll6b9.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445908315 27920 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 01:11:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:11:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 02:11:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Zqsne-0005IG-Bm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:11:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsnY-0006tR-Lz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:11:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsnO-0006tM-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsnL-0003PC-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsnL-0003NW-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsnI-0004zK-CR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:11:20 +0100 Original-Received: from 23-91-157-48.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.157.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:11:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-157-48.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:11:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-157-48.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wS3NjXBPcJUMAIGgsNtupcdK8GA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107830 Archived-At: > In particular, is deleting a subdirectory of `package-user-dir' enough > to uninstall the package? Yes. > Is moving its subdirectory somewhere else, restarting Emacs, then > copying it back again and restarting again equivalent to uninstalling > and then installing again? Yes. Stefan