[O] Preventing Org from being installed by elpa (was: Remove Org from Emacs repository?)

[Karl Voit]

* Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Actually, I have a third: the plain old Org package from the
> package repos, because I've installed other packages that require
> it. (Another gripe: why isn't the loading of a file containing
> (provide 'org) enough to tell the package manager not to install
> another one?)

I got the tipp of creating «~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-30000101/org-pkg.el»
with:
  (define-package "org" "30000101" "Dummy org mode package" 'nil)

And this simulates the fulfilled dependency so that my git version
of Org-mode is the only one installed (besides maybe the default one
from Emacs).

HTH

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