Re: OK to put lisp/progmodes/flymake.el in ELPA as a :core package?

[João Távora]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 02:10 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden wrote:

> (package-install #s(package-desc flymake
>                 (1 0 1)
>                 "A universal on-the-fly syntax checker"
>                 ((emacs
>                   (26 1)))
>                 single "gnu" nil
>                 ((:url . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/flymake.html")
>                  (:keywords "c" "languages" "tools"))
>                 nil))

You can try something like

    (package-install (cadr (assoc 'flymake package-archive-contents)))

which should be a bit less brittle. 

Oh thanks, that's much nicer!

Should it be a separate function? Package-install-most-recent or package upgrade?

João