Re: Why 'define-package' marked obsolete?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:21:04 +0100
>> 
>> Can I ask why 'define-package' was marked obsolete?
>
> It never did anything useful.  Its original implementation just
> signaled an error.

I just looked up the definition from when package.el was merged[0], and it
did stuff, mainly modifying `package-alist'.

[0] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el?id=44198b6ee97bcb0ac88a5cadd1bf9b62048d0156#n513

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Philip Kaludercic