Subject: bug#62720: 29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:53:30 +0300

On 23/04/2023 17:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:11:44 +0300
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>>   [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
>>
>>>> It addressed two last points from your previous email, obviously.
>>> Which points are those?  Please help me identify them.
>>
>> These two:
>>
>>   > There is already such an option, added as part of fixing this bug.
>>
>> The binding was added, so now we straight away delegate to package-install.
> 
> I meant to give the user the control on whether package-update will
> update built-in packages, like we did with package-install: either via
> prefix argument or by customizing the user option.

That would be a different change, though.

So what are we guarding against here? That the user will choose a 
built-in package to upgrade by accident?

And we'll show her an error, saying "use the prefix argument"?