Subject: bug#44306: package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:44:41 +0100

Boruch Baum <[email-masked]> writes:

> That's not really my point. My point in the bug report is that while
> technically the use of function 'error' is correct in this case, it works
> out to be counter-productive and should be replaced with a simple use of
> the function 'message' logging the condition to the *Messages* buffer.

Since it sounds like package-autoremove is making a list of candidates
that includes packages that should not be removed, the `error' there
sounds like exactly the right thing?  Because it's uncovering a bug in
package-autoremove.

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