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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? |
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Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:50:43 -0500 |
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> >> I think there should be a way to activate a package explicitly for the
> >> current session _without_ automatically activating it for future
> >> sessions.
> > The failure of package.el to support this use case
> FWIW, package.el does support this case:
> - one way is to prevent package-initialize from activating packages,
> and then activating the ones you want by explicit calls to package-active.
> - another is to set package-load-list. E.g.
This means a user _can_ do it -- but it isn't naturak and easy.
I suggest adding a convenient interface for it.
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- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, (continued)
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, T.V Raman, 2018/01/30
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Tim Cross, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, John Wiegley, 2018/01/31
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?,
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- Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file, Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/30
- Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/30
- Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file, Mark Oteiza, 2018/01/31
- Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file, Radon Rosborough, 2018/01/31
Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file, Radon Rosborough, 2018/01/30