Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages with Emacs - what are we missing?

[Andy Moreton]

On Thu 10 Sep 2020, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> It might help if there was a mechanism to freeze packages, so no
>> upgrades are suggested for packages that are frozen.
>
> There's a mechanism to control which version of a package is used
> (i.e. `package-load-list`).  We could/should refrain from auto-updating
> package whose version is "frozen" this way.
>
> Note that the purpose of `package-load-list` is not to prevent
> installing other versions, but to prevent *activating* other versions.

The term "activate" is used many times wrt packages, but is not
defined anywhere. How are users meant to understand what it means ?

    AndyM