Re: org 9.2.6 and org 9.1.9

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

Thank you Stefan. I'll try to reproduce the issue and then I'll report.

Jean-Christophe

> On Nov 27, 2019, at 12:24, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 
>> What should happen is that
>> 1) packages.el should see that I'm trying to install a package that requires
>> 9.2.6 as a dependency and it should notify me that 9.1.9 is already
>> installed and do I really want to do that, etc.
>> 
>> 2) *or* just consider that it's better for me to use 9.2.6 instead of
>> whatever comes with emacs and make sure that the older package is forgotten
>> by emacs.
> 
> I think 2 is the right option.  package.el was designed such that you
> can have various versions of a given package installed.  Only one of the
> can be activated at any given time, because Emacs Lisp doesn't provide any
> way to do better, but having both Org-9.1.9 and Org-9.2.6 installed
> should be a perfectly normal situation.
> 
> Any misbehavior that results from this should be reported as a bug
> (especially if it can be reproduced).
> 
> 
>        Stefan