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Autoload package-installed-p

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: corwin <at> bru.st, 53885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53885: 28.0.51 [PATCH] Autoload package-installed-p
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:04:13 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  53885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:41:40 +0100
> 
> Oh, I see -- this has nothing to do with use-package, and you could have
> used some other package manager.  You just want to be able to check
> whether a package is installed in .emacs (without saying `require
> 'package') which seems reasonable to me.
> 
> However, this comes firmly under "new functionality" and not "bug fix",
> so I'm not sure we should put it in emacs-28 at this point, no matter
> how innocuous it looks like.  But if Eli thinks otherwise, I won't
> object.

Those were my thoughts as well, so we agree here.

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