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Re: bundled ELPA package vs autoloads
From: |
Achim Gratz |
Subject: |
Re: bundled ELPA package vs autoloads |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:58:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Stephen Leake writes:
> One user just noticed that the autoloads for 4.01 are still present when
> the ELPA package is installed. This is not a huge problem, but it does
> confuse things when upgrading; old keybindings appear to work, but
> should be changed, etc.
That's the same problem that haunts Org in the same situation as was
discussed previously.
> This will also be a problem for future bundled ELPA packages, when a new
> version is installed from ELPA.
No, in that case the older package should never be activated.
> I'm not clear what the right solution is for ada-mode 4.01 now; perhaps
> just living with it.
>
> For future bundled ELPA packages, some way to _not_ load the autoloads
> for the bundled packages if a newer version is installed should be
> provided.
Certainly. And that's the reason why bundled packages should not simply
be treated as "sources that get pulled into the tarball from another
repo", IMHO.
Regards,
Achim.
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