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bug#19296: [PATCH] Package archives now have priorities.


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: bug#19296: [PATCH] Package archives now have priorities.
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:07:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 13:31:50 +0100 Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@forcix.cx> wrote: 

JS> When installing packages by name, only packages from archives with
JS> the highest priority are considered, before versions are compared.

JS> This solves the "MELPA problem", where MELPA assigns date-based
JS> version numbers to packages which override all other archives.
JS> Giving MELPA a lower priority means packages are installed from
JS> MELPA only when the package is not available from other archives.

I like it.

Ted





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