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31.0.50; use-package cannot override a built in package

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah <at> everybody.org>
Cc: 75328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75328: 31.0.50; use-package cannot override a built in package
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:24:13 +0200

> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:29:51 -0500
> From:  "Mark A. Hershberger" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> The following command sequence does not check out transient into
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/transient while a similar sequence for magit checks out
> magit:
> 
>     $ rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/
>     $ echo '(use-package transient
>            :vc (:url "https://github.com/magit/transient") :ensure t)' > .emacs
>     $ emacs
> 
> Since the bundled transient cannot be used with forge from git, I ended
> up installing transient using package-install.
> 
> I looked over help for use-package, but I cannot see a way to force it
> to use the version specified in :vc for the package instead of the
> bundled version.

Did you try customizing package-install-upgrade-built-in?

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