Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'?

[Colin Baxter]

> Hello, the 25.0.91 pretest version seems great so far. I like the
> dependency tracking in package.el.
>
> Unfortunately whenever I install/update packages, it saves
> `package-selected-packages' to my customize file. This is a bit
> annoying as I share my config with git across multiple machines that
> have different packages installed.
>
> While I could alter the definition of
> `package--save-selected-packages' myself, I'd think it would be nicer
> if there was a user option to toggle this behaviour. The default
> initialization of `all non-dependencies' seems to be what I'd always
> want anyway.

For what's it worth, I found the default annoying in the extreme. At the
very least, the user should be left in no doubt that his init file has
been changed.

C. Baxter.