Re: [O] Preventing Org from being installed by elpa

[Phillip Lord]

Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:

> * Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I have a third: the plain old Org package from the
>> package repos, because I've installed other packages that require
>> it. (Another gripe: why isn't the loading of a file containing
>> (provide 'org) enough to tell the package manager not to install
>> another one?)
>
> I got the tipp of creating «~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-30000101/org-pkg.el»
> with:
>   (define-package "org" "30000101" "Dummy org mode package" 'nil)
>
> And this simulates the fulfilled dependency so that my git version
> of Org-mode is the only one installed (besides maybe the default one
> from Emacs).


You could probably do something with package-pinned-packages also.

This is probably something that package.el should support, so when not
submit a bug report?