Subject: bug#63800: 30.0.50; [ELPA] Inaccurate installation instructions for built-in packages

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:59:01 +0000

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Perhaps a simpler alternative is to stop referencing 'package-install' 
> and instead point uses to 'M-x list-packages'.

See the attached patch.

>From e3e7eae381c0756b54935121c3f0a641685af666 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 14:56:22 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Suggest `package-install' to install packages

* elpa-admin.el (elpaa--html-make-pkg): Instruct using `list-packages'
to install packages instead of `package-install'.

See bug#63800.
---
 elpa-admin.el | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/elpa-admin.el b/elpa-admin.el
index 7ee385d0a..2b5c9b3dd 100644
--- a/elpa-admin.el
+++ b/elpa-admin.el
@@ -1879,7 +1879,8 @@ (defun elpaa--html-make-pkg (pkg pkg-spec files srcdir plain-readme)
       (elpaa--html-insert-docs pkg-spec)
       (insert "</dl>")
       (insert (format "<p>To install this package, run in Emacs:</p>
-                       <pre>M-x <span class=\"kw\">package-install</span> RET <span class=\"kw\">%s</span> RET</pre>"
+                       <pre>M-x <span class=\"kw\">list-packages</span> RET</pre>
+                       <p>Then, find <span class=\"kw\">%s</span> in the list, click on the link, and click <span class=\"kw\">Install</span>.</p>"
                       name))
       (let* ((readme-content (elpaa--get-README pkg-spec srcdir))
              (readme-text plain-readme)
-- 
2.41.0

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