Re: `package.el' and built-in packages

[Artur Malabarba]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> From a quick step through with the debugger it appears
>> that (package-install 'org) quits at `package-installed-p` in
>> `package-compute-transaction` without looking at the version,
>> which probably means I'm missing something.
>
> Hmm...maybe you need to provide the exact package (with version).
> In any case, I think you should M-x report-emacs-bug.
>

Whatever we do, I beg that we don't make this the default behaviour of
package-install. There are probably plenty of people (me included) who
use it as way to ensure a package is installed (without worrying about
most recent version).

We can add a command `package-update', or add an extra optional argument
(something like `update-if-installed').