Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> writes: > * Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: >> >> Actually, I have a third: the plain old Org package from the >> package repos, because I've installed other packages that require >> it. (Another gripe: why isn't the loading of a file containing >> (provide 'org) enough to tell the package manager not to install >> another one?) > > I got the tipp of creating «~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-30000101/org-pkg.el» > with: > (define-package "org" "30000101" "Dummy org mode package" 'nil) > > And this simulates the fulfilled dependency so that my git version > of Org-mode is the only one installed (besides maybe the default one > from Emacs).
You could probably do something with package-pinned-packages also. This is probably something that package.el should support, so when not submit a bug report?