Aloha Achim, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes:
> Thomas S. Dye writes: >> I do have a technical question that you or someone else on the list >> might be able to answer for me. When I downloaded the Babel languages >> from melpa just now, the elpa version of Org mode was also downloaded >> and installed, even though I didn't ask for it. Why is this? > > Although you don't say which package you tried, I would guess that the > "org" package is specified as a dependency, likely with some minimum > version. I tried the ob-* packages and I'm not sure which one(s) might have triggered this. > >> Can it be disabled? Must the elpa Org mode be installed and activated >> in order for the Org mode packages to work? > > From the point of package manager anything installed from the outside > doesn't exist. You can fake that in various way, for instance by > creating a package directory "org-21991231" and putting an org-pkg.el > with > > (define-package "org" "21991231" "Fake Org package for dependency resolution" > 'nil) > > in it. Excellent. Thanks! Would it be useful to distribute org-21991231 on elpa? All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
