bug#46841: [PATCH] Make package downloading in inversion.el obsolete

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> There is some code to download packages in cedet/inversion.el which
> seems completely redundant now that we have package.el.  I suggest
> marking that part as obsolete, see the attached patch.
>
> To be honest, I don't exactly see that there is any need for
> inversion.el since the problem it tries to solve is already solved by
> package.el.  Perhaps we should just move the entire library to
> obsolete/.

Utility functions like `inversion-package-version' are used in the rest
of CEDET, though?  (I just did a quick grep, but didn't actually read
the call sites.)

But, yes, the download bits don't seem very useful.

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