Re: package annoyance

greg(a)alphatech.com wrote: I'd say that this should not be happening. I'd also go further and say that: * Packages in ~/.xemacs/packages should probably take precedence over any system-installed ones. As it is, it appears that the system- installed ones are loaded before those in ~/.xemacs/packages. * There needs to be some kind of package version/revision that is stored when a package is loaded (hmm, just noticed that this data already exists, but we need to use it). That way, a more informative error message could be output (or not at all), if another version of the same package is encountered: + If the two packages have the same version/revision, a warning is output about the duplicate package (or nothing is output at all). + If the first (user's) package is newer than the second (system's) package, a warning is output (or nothing at all). If a warning is output, it must be easily suppressable. + If the first (user's) package is older than the second (system's) package, an error is output (???). I think everything that's needed already exists. We just need to write some elisp (write a function that compares version #s with those stored in packages-package-list, and modify fixup-autoload-buffer to use the function). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.