Re: emacs-29 44ebd9cbd56 2/2: Eglot: explain how to update Eglot in manual (bug#62720)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  joaotavora@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:12:14 +0000
> 
> Just thinking about introducing a command that we right-now plan to
> deprecate by the next release is not something I look forward to.  Even
> just promoting the concept of having a package-specific upgrade command
> is something I am a afraid of (it took for ages for third-party packages
> to stop adding pointless `foo-version' commands).  And I might have
> missed something here, but none of this would tackle the "central" issue
> of use-package not installing the newest version of a package if the
> package is already built-in, but hasn't yet been installed before.  As
> mentioned above: If we want to tell users to install packages using a
> custom command, they might as well use M-x list-packages and select the
> package from ELPA that way?

And on top of all that (with which I agree 100%), I explicitly and
repeatedly asked not to introduce this command.