Vladimir Alexiev writes: >> > The org-plus-contrib package on http://orgmode.org/elpa/ should provide >> > org-8.0 >> Why do you think it does not? > > For example, ox-reveal says "Requires: org-8.0". When I select to > install it, the package manager also installs org, although > org-plus-contrib is installed. I looked for "provides" info in the > packages and I couldn't find any... maybe simply the package name > indicates what is provided?
Package manager simply doesn't allow for packages to "provide" another package, there's nothing we can do about this. The easiest (if a bit clumsy) way to deal with this is to install Org via package manager, then customize package-load-list to never load the org package. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada