Re: [elpa] elpa-admin 1d766451f8: Suggest `package-install' to install packages (bug#63800)

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 13/07/2023 15:51, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> But this should be motivated by a preference, not by a bug (which we
> should fix instead)

The bug was in the instructions: for every package we say that they can 
install it by using 'M-x package-install'.

But there is no sense to do that for built-in packages: they are already 
installed, so package-install predictably says so instead of upgrading 
to an external version.

Emacs 29 now has a user option to change the latter behavior (which IMHO 
is not the right direction to solve this), but even so, it's off by 
default, and the ELPA website needs to have instructions which will work 
in the previous versions of Emacs.

Basically, see the previous discussions.