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24.0.92; package.el doesn't initialize dependencies when installing

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Donald Ephraim Curtis <dcurtis <at> milkbox.net>
Cc: 10593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10593: 24.0.92; package.el doesn't initialize dependencies when installing
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:14:23 +0800

Donald Ephraim Curtis <dcurtis <at> milkbox.net> writes:

> I am attempting to install the package "clojurescript-mode" which
> depends on "clojure-mode" using package.el.  clojurescript-mode properly
> cites clojure-mode as a dependency and in the source does a (require
> 'clojure-mode).  However, inside `package-download-transaction' there is
> never a call to `package-initialize' or any other function to actually
> add the newly installed `clojure-mode' to the load-path.  It ends up in
> this case that everything turns out fine, but there are other cases
> where multiple levels of dependencies exist and a simple (require '...)
> causes breakage.  I am able to reproduce this with the `rinari' package
> that installs from packages in Marmalade and Tromey's repository.
>
> If this is a bug in the packages, I'd be happy to trace it down, but
> changing `package-download-transaction' as follows fixed my problem

Thanks for the bug report.  I've committed a different fix to the
version of package.el in the Emacs trunk.

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