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29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, 62720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#62720: 29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:53:16 +0100

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 7:08 PM Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> "We" may not know that, but by the principle of not giving me things *I*
> didnʼt ask for, *I* donʼt want ':core' packages being automatically
> upgraded, unless I either
>
> 1. explicitly ask for such an upgrade
> 2. have myself somehow installed a newer version already, in which case
>   itʼs no longer a ':core' package
>
> Iʼve not checked, but does whatʼs currently in emacs-29 not give us at
> least [1]?

Not when package dependencies are involved.  If you weren't aware,
in Emacs 26 (including 29), if you explicitly ask to install package A
and it depends on :core package B, which you didn't ask to install,
package B gets upgraded.

In another data point, the last two patches I proposed to package-install
are similar and only extend the "upgrade-even-if-:core" behaviour
to two packages that weren't core are now :core.  Those two packages
are Eglot and Use-Package.  The rationale I used to develop these patches
was to protect users like you (inasmuch as Emacs 28 already protects
you) _and_ to protect Eglot users.  I am of course presuming that
you aren't/weren't also an Eglot user, otherwise you would have been
hit by these package upgrades related to dependencies in Emacs 28
and would have noticed them.

João

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