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Only thing I'm missing from Emacs is the ability to completely freeze all packages and configs.

As soon as I feel like everything is stable and great, it decides to update 180 packages while I'm trying to edit a file and destroys something in my setup.

If anyone knows a way to prevent all updates and "freeze" a version that would be excellent.

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You might want to check out straight.el [0] in replacement of package.el; it can pin package versions, etc. It is used by the very popular Doom Emacs [1] to lock package versions for reproducible config reasons.

[0] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el [1] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Haven't yet needed to freeze a package, but I can confirm that setting up your packages is stupid simple in Doom (Straight), and freezing them equally so.

> Only thing I'm missing from Emacs is the ability to completely freeze all packages and configs.

Weird - Emacs by default does not auto-update packages. I do it manually as needed. Are you using Vanilla Emacs or something else?

I use Emacs with Nix, which parses my config for use-package declarations and installs them for me. Emacs packages are pinned the same way as anything else in Nix and, as a bonus, it can also manage non-Emacs dependencies.

I wouldn't recommend Nix just for a reproducible Emacs config, but if you end up considering Nix for broader reasons, being able to use it for Emacs could be a nice bonus :)

That's weird. I use package.el and it only ever updates when I ask it to.

The solution to this is too keep your elpa/ directory under version control.

I use this hacked-up script to help me do that: https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/master/site-lisp/up...

I haven't used it myself, so I cannot speak for it, but straight.el [1] has functionality to freeze the version of packages.

[1] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el

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