Re: decision on moving core packages to ELPA; also move to obsolete?

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>,  stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:03:57 -0500
>> 
>> >> Org is distributed as part of Emacs but it is routinely also
>> >> installed and updated from ELPA and AFAIK it does not implement any
>> >> special trick to make this work smotly.
>> > The idea is that users should be able to install, upgrade, and
>> > downgrade such packages exactly like they do with unbundled ones.
>> 
>> I still don't see what's the problem.
>> 
>> With current Emacs, users can upgrade/downgrade their version of Org,
>> python.el (etc...) via `list-packages`.  Clearly the same would apply to
>> bundled ELPA packages.
>
> Doesn't package.el install stuff under ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ ?

yes.

> > If so, what happens with installed Lisp files under /usr/share/ ?

They stay there, but ~/.emacs.d/elpa is earlier in load-path.

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