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package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
Cc: 44306 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44306: package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:12:19 +0100

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com> writes:

> When attempting to perform package-autoremove to clean up obsolete
> packages, my emacs would abort with an error that `foo' is a system
> package. Thus, it had become impossible to perform the operation. I
> altered function package-delete to replace its two calls to function
> `error' with simple `message' and can now clean up the packages.

It kinda sounds like there something wrong in what package-autoremove is
trying to delete.

I'm assuming that the package wasn't literally "foo" -- what package was
it that it wanted to remove?

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