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Subject: bug#79718: package-upgrade-all should upgrade built-in packages when package-install-upgrade-built-in
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As a user of the most recently released stable version of Emacs,
for packages that are both built into Emacs core as well as
distributed via GNU- or NonGNU-Elpa, I prefer to use their
Elpa-versions (which should be more recent than the versions built
into stable-release Emacs). How do I tell Emacs to install the
Elpa-versions of these packages? Today I realized that the
following snippet as init.el does not that:

    (require 'package)
    (setopt package-install-upgrade-built-in t)
    (package-refresh-contents)
    (package-upgrade-all)

This is because package-upgrade-all determines upgradeable
packages with (package--upgradeable-packages), i.e. it never
passes a non-nil value as the optional INCLUDE-BUILTINS argument
to that function.

I've implemented a personal workaround for this problem with the
following advice but I'm not sure if it's the right approach:

(define-advice package--upgradeable-packages (:filter-args (args))
  (list (or package-install-upgrade-built-in (car-safe args))))

As this advice suggests, I propose as a solution to this issue,
to:

    1. Either edit package-upgrade-all so that it uses the
    package-install-upgrade-built-in option when calling
    package--upgradeable-packages: (package--upgradeable-packages
    package-install-upgrade-built-in)

    2. Or define a new user option that is used as
    INCLUDE-BUILTINS parameter.

What do you think?

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Subject: bug#79718: Acknowledgement (package-upgrade-all should upgrade
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