Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/package-fix e5d5cdf 1/2: emacs-lisp/package.el: Indicate incompatible packages.

[chad]

> On 12 Feb 2015, at 06:41, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>> Ideally, yes. That's why I factored it out as a function.
>> However, this is called on each package about to be printed, and checking
>> whether the dependencies are available imposes a performance cost that I'm
>> not sure we should pay. The time for printing the package list will go from
>> linear to quadratic in the number of packages.
> 
> I understand, I was just pointing out that this current solution
> is incomplete.  I expect that it's sufficient for now. […]

We could also make the recursive check happen only package.el tries
to do anything with a specific package (package-menu-mark-*,
package-menu-describe-package, etc). I don’t know if that’s better or
not.

~Chad