Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > I've removed "Permanently" and made the description more detailed.
>> 
>> Thanks.  But in the new text, there seems to be no indication that the
>> hidden status is saved for future sessions.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how to best describe that, if we feel that "permanently"
>> is not clear enough.  Maybe we could say something along the lines of
>> "for all future sessions" or somesuch.  It's probably also a good idea
>> to mention the variable package-hidden-regexps.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>
> Feel free to make such a change, although I don't particularly see why
> we need to emphasize the "future sessions" part here.  We don't
> actually say anywhere anything to the contrary, and there are no other
> commands that hide stuff only temporarily, do we?

Well, the filter commands in the package menu only work in the current
buffer.  If you close the buffer and open it again, the filters are
gone.  That is, to my mind, temporary.

In this case, the filter is saved using customize-save-variable and
will therefore be there even if you restart Emacs.  So I think it can
be a bit surprising if it's not documented.

I would suggest the attached patch.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas