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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by alex_smart on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:32PM (#31562055)
Don't check for package updates during startup? Setup a cron job to upgrade the packages while you are asleep?
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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by dotancohen on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:55AM (#31566512)
It seems that Emacs does the check automatically, no? I have looked briefly on how to disable that but I didn't have the prerequisite knowledge at the time to understand what was happening. I'll look at that again, thank you.
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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by unhammer on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:51AM (#31567055)
Maybe you're using (use-package foo :ensure t) or something similar? I did that before, and if there was some package that simply wasn't available it would of course check and not find anything every time I started emacs. I don't use :ensure t any more (I check the elpa folder into git along with my init file for keeping it in sync across machines)
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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by alex_smart on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:18AM (#31566613)
>It seems that Emacs does the check automatically, no?

Nope, it for sure does not.

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