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Re: [O] [OT] Requiring packages which may be missing?
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Adam Porter |
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Re: [O] [OT] Requiring packages which may be missing? |
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Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:07:07 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Tim Cross <address@hidden> writes:
> You do need to be careful when sharing your .emacs.d between machines to
> ensure you use something like gitignore to exclude things you may not
> want to share across systems (such as auto-save files, various command
> history files etc).
Yes, that's a good point. You should either exclude/ignore them, or
just never commit them.
> With respect to packages changing, you can use the options in elpa to
> pin a package to a specific version. The use-package macro also support
> this.
Note that you can't install old versions of packages with package.el.
Once a newer version is available, the old version is deleted from
MELPA. You'd need to use a different tool, like Quelpa.