`package-pinned-packages' seems to allow for user choice here. It is still easy to muck up one's installation, but that is between the user and package.el, not any particular package, I believe.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Alexis <flexibe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2015-03-10T06:21:10+1100, T.F. Torrey <tftor...@tftorrey.com> said: > > TFT> The biggest obstacle I to this that I see is that developers tend TFT> > to hate the package manager and love git. > > This developer appreciates both, and thus particularly appreciates MELPA as > well. :-) > > > Alexis. > -- Grant Rettke g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” --Thompson