GNU bug report logs - #57503
28.1.91; package-selected-packages should not be saved to custom-file

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>, 57503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#57503: 28.1.91; package-selected-packages should not be saved to custom-file
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:04:52 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

>     Lars> Oh, I didn't know that it was automatically recreated.  Then
>     Lars> what's the
>     Lars> point of the variable?  According to the doc string:

So it just caches data to speed things up, I guess?  

> Of course one use case that breaks is to do
>
> emacs-29->emacs-28, *delete* some packages, and then go back to
> emacs-29, which will pick up the old multi-session value.
>
> I guess we could change emacs-29 to refresh the multi-session value
> every time you run `list-packages'.

Hm.  Or...  refresh the value if the .emacs.d/elpa directory has fresher
contents than the multisession variable, but I don't know whether that's
faster.

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