Re: package.el dependencies

[Stefan Monnier]

> I don't think we need an alist for that. Simply marking which packages
> were installed explicitly in a plain list should be enough.

Agreed.

> (In fact, maybe the "instaleed explicitly" flag could be stored in
> `package-alist' too, instead of its own list.)

You can integrate the data into package-alist, but it needs to be stored
elsewhere since it needs to be stored into a file (my preference is to
store it into a Custom var and rely on Custom to save that into a file).


        Stefan