Re: question about recent change

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/08/2015 11:51 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> You don't have to upgrade.

So, I'll have to avoid pressing U, or undo the marks for particular 
packages every time?

> I strongly believe that package.el should first serve the needs of
> ordinary users.  Power users like you can roll their own, or add a
> special power-user-only feature to package.el, or etc.

What will be the most popular circumstances, until which an ordinary 
user will have a non-built-in package outside of package-user-dir?

If they have been installed by the operating system, the latter probably 
expects to manage their upgrades as well (for instance, to match the 
installed elisp version to the version of the command-line program it is 
used with).