GNU bug report logs - #25340
Save-some-buffers gets called when installing packages.

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25340: Save-some-buffers gets called when installing packages.
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 13:47:41 -0500

Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I had the idea of doing this:
>
> (defun byte-recompile-directory (directory &optional arg force
> limit-buffer-saving)
>
> ...
>
> If forth argument LIMIT-BUFFER-SAVING is 'directory, only files within
> DIRECTORY would be saved.  When LIMIT-BUFFER-SAVING is t no existing buffers
> would be checked for modification.
>
>
> But I found out out that having LIMIT-BUFFER-SAVING with value t like
> this would not work without an accompanying change to
> byte-recompile-file - since byte-recompile-file already checks whether
> there's a buffer for that file and that buffer is modified.
>

I don't see where byte-recompile-file is checking that?

> So, since I don't think that doing changes to byte-recompile-file is
> the best idea, here's my current version.
>
> Also, note that the check in byte-recompile-file actually makes
> calling save-some-buffers somewhat redundant.

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