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bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:57:17 +0200 |
> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:21:59 -0600
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 53885@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:45 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > > Thanks, but I don't think I understand the relevance, probably because
> > > I don't use use-package. Why do you need package-installed-p to be
> > > autoloaded in this scenario, and why cannot use-package do that by
> > > itself?
> >
> > Yes, that's the puzzling thing. But I've never used use-package
> > myself -- I assumed that it was a framework built around package.el, but
> > perhaps it's not related to package.el at all?
> >
>
> I'm sure I follow the logic here. If use-package isn't installed, how
> does it matter what relationship it may have to package.el?
>
> That said, one can replace `use-package' with any feature not present
> in Emacs as shipped.
>
> Perhaps the use-case is more generally expressed as such:
>
> I would like to have my init scripts automatically install a package
> that isn't available "out of the box", but only if that feature hasn't
> already been installed.
>
> As things presently stand, `package-installed-p' is nearly perfect for
> this, however one must take care to ensure package.el has been
> manually loaded before calling it, in order to avoid Emacs raising the
> error shown in the original report.
Now I'm confused: which code calls package-installed-p in the
scenarios you have in mind? I thought it was use-package, but you
seem to say that's not the case?
- bug#53885: Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/08
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/08
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/09
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/09
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/09
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/10
- bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/10
bug#53885: Autoload package-installed-p, Corwin Brust, 2022/02/09