Re: Async rebuild package-quickstart after packages update? was Re: 28.0.50; Proposal: slightly more efficient package-quickstart.el

[Stefan Monnier]

T.V Raman [2021-08-03 19:24:59] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> So looking at package.el:
> package-quickstart-refresh is called from
> package--quickstart-maybe-refresh and looking at the code in
> package-quickstart-refresh, it does not block on user input, so it may
> just be sufficient to change the call to package-quickstart-refresh
> to (make-thread  #'package-quickstart-refresh) --
> Thoughts?

The fact that it doesn't block on user input makes `make-thread` fairly
useless, I'm afraid.


        Stefan