Re: Elpa packages and macro dependencies.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > The idea would be to make this automatic in the byte-compiler, so the
>> > packages don't need to worry about it.
> Actually, now that I think about this, wouldn't it make more sense to
> fix this on package.el instead of the bytecompiler?

Don't take my word too literally.  Maybe this can be done all in
package.el without touching the byte-compiler, indeed.

> Before upgrading a package, package.el could check if the package is already
> loaded and then force-reload it after the installation.

The question is how to do the "force-reload".  Once we know how to do
that, there are various options as to when to do this force-reload, and
I think this is an easier problem.


        Stefan