Re: [pkg.m] Load order of dependencies

[Philip Nienhuis]

Olaf Till wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Andrew Janke wrote:
> > On 12/12/19 1:36 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> >
> > > But: is pkj compatible with all existing packages? or do existing
> > > packages need to adapt DESCRIPTION entries and/or other things?
> >
> > pkj is compatible with existing packages. No updates to DESCRIPTION or
> > other things are needed.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
>
> I had no time to thoroughly look over this thread and the related bug
> report,

Yeah a lot of long posts.

>         but could this be the old problem dealt with here:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7976

No, the culprit here was unexpected consequences of the behavior of 
addpath(), I think even the ones who wrote pkg.m may have overlooked it.
See bug #57403.

Philip