Re: Can _pkg.el come back?

Friday, 2 October 1998

        Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)sr.hp.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 jmiller(a)smart.net wrote:
> Darryl's pui-install-packages stuff makes use of the _pkg.el files i
> think.  each package that is updating has the installed version going from 
> some previous installed version to not installed.  I believe it's because
> the installer code can't read _pkg.el 
...
      Yeah, that's it. 
...
      It's a kludge, but I needed some way of obtaining package
 information after installing a package, and loading _pkg.el was it. 
O.K.  It's coming back.

 ...
...
 [ To go from a kludge to the "right thing", we really need
an
   "uninstall.el" that undoes everything that autoloads.el does. ] 
It's tough to do right the way most lisp is written.  `unload-feature'
goes part of the way but it isn't perfect and it definitely doesn't
work undoing the effect of loading an autoloads file.

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