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 23:55:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wq4dpqib.fsf@gmail.com> <873871p5vt.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422075353 2606 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2015 04:55:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:55:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel , Thierry Volpiatto To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 05:55:49 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 1YEslA-0002qt-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 05:55:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEsl9-00074I-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEskt-00072K-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEskq-0002lO-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:55:31 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:36502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEskq-0002lJ-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:55:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t0O4tOU5020757; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:55:25 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DCB4B66100; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:55:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:50:12 -0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5195=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5195> : inlines <1940> : streams <1378465> : uri <1843586> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:181714 Archived-At: > I don't think we need an alist for that. Simply marking which packages > were installed explicitly in a plain list should be enough. Agreed. > (In fact, maybe the "instaleed explicitly" flag could be stored in > `package-alist' too, instead of its own list.) You can integrate the data into package-alist, but it needs to be stored elsewhere since it needs to be stored into a file (my preference is to store it into a Custom var and rely on Custom to save that into a file). Stefan