GNU bug report logs - #66350
30.0.50; Description for (use-package emacs ...)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 21:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 30.0.50

Fixed in version 30.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: 66350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66350: 30.0.50; Description for (use-package emacs ...)
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:19:08 +0200

John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The ‘(use-package emacs …)‘ declaration has no special meaning. It just takes
> advantage of the fact that ‘(featurep 'emacs)‘ is always true, so in a way
> it’s just for consistency’s sake, and doesn’t actually do anything special.

Thanks for your response.  I wonder which use-package keywords don't
make sense in that form?  The way I see it things like :defer, :init et
al. are useless since we're talking about Emacs with all preloaded
libraries, right?

Best, Arash
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