GNU bug report logs - #63563
29.0.91; package.el should not install unselected packages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 02:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 29.0.91

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
To: 63563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63563: 29.0.91; package.el should not install unselected packages
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:36:28 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It turns out this behavior is new in Emacs 29, see bug#40457 and NEWS.
> Since the new behavior is incompatible with the old one, I have now
> added a new user option, package-menu-use-current-if-no-marks, to get
> back the old behavior, and mentioned it in NEWS.  You can now
> customize that option to a nil value to get what you want.

Should the default value of
package-menu-use-current-if-no-marks be nil?

That would follow the convention of old behavior being
unchanged unless the user does something to enable the new
behavior.

-- 

Howard
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