Re: package-selected-packages in Customize [was: sqlite3]

[Stefan Kangas]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 06 2021, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>> FWIW, I think something like `package-selected-packages' is a minor
>> abuse of customize, and one which to me is rather impractical: when
>> synching my Init file between different machines, I don't necessarily
>> want to have the same packages installed on all of them.
>
> For this very reason, I moved all of my settings out of Customize, set
> `custom-file` to "~/.emacs.d/lisp/custom.el", which is consequently only used
> for `package-selected-packages`, and keep this file out of the git repo.
>
> Sure, I can't use `package-install-selected-packages`, but most of my packages
> are installed through `use-package` anyway, so I can live with that. And I 
> can't
> use Customize, but that's also just a slight annoyance.

That sounds less than ideal, indeed.  So this should be a prime
candidate for moving out of customize, and perhaps one early user of the
new persistent variable/sqlite support.