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: Elpa packages and macro dependencies. Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:00:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fvekh7i4.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87iojed7iv.fsf@Rainer.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413828078 10871 80.91.229.3 (20 Oct 2014 18:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 20:01:11 2014 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 1XgHGY-0000Y3-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:01:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgHGX-0002ul-MA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgHGD-0002su-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgHG5-0004kN-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:00:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:1282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgHG5-0004k9-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:00:41 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpY87/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMQCw4mEhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpY87/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMQCw4mEhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="94658304" Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.143.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 20 Oct 2014 14:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 049C63EBF; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:00:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87iojed7iv.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:34:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:175603 Archived-At: >> If we can solve the second problem, then the first problem is solved as >> well (by reloading the new package(s) before compiling). > No it isn't. It's quite easy to get Emacs into a state where you cannot > correctly compile anything for instance, although usually the problems > will be more subtle. What kind of situations/problems are you thinking of? Stefan