That is the strange thing, Cask does not load org when it does its work. So, the error occurred not in that scenario. Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” --Thompson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have no idea if it relates to what you describe with cask and > dependencies, but I had the same error and found several old threads stating > that it's caused by installing org when it's already initialized. > > I solved it by Emacs -q and reinstalling from elpa. If you search for the > old threads there was a link to documentation that explains why this occurs > which may be of some help addressing with cask. > > On Jun 17, 2014 3:38 PM, "Grant Rettke" <g...@wisdomandwonder.com> wrote: >> >> Good afternoon, >> >> Just upgraded to 8.2.7 and was surprised to get the >> "org-with-silent-modifications" error. Here is what happened. >> >> The first time that I set up my Emacs libraries, using Cask, which >> uses the Emacs package manager, it install org2blog which has org >> 8.2.6 as a dependency. Then, Cask installed org-plus-contrib 8.2.6 and >> life went on. Then I can cask update to get the 8.2.7 release (Cask >> just pulls from the org repo). >> >> Started up Emacs and got that aforementioned error. The issue seemed >> to revolve around load-path or >> load-order, and I didn't understand any further than that. It was very >> strange because my whole approach >> had been to automate everything so it would "just work". >> >> Poking around, I eventually saw that org2blog depends on "org" (yes >> now I admit that I didn't know this when >> at first, but that is not relevant here I believe). That just didn't >> look right to have both orgs in there, so I deleted plain old "org" >> and commented out the org2blog load. Now Emacs works again. >> >> The issue seems to be that org-plus-contrib doesn't satisfy "org" from >> a package manager perspective. >> >> This surprised me because the former is a superset. >> >> My next step now is to figure out what to do from a package >> perspective, because I would like to keep >> org2blog in there. >> >> Anyone else encountered this and want to share the solution? >> >> I'm going to think about this some more and see. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi >> g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ >> “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates >> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) >> “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop >> taking it seriously.” --Thompson >> >
