Stefan Monnier wrote: > E.g. we could add to bytecomp.el the ability to force `require' to > reload a package if it's not already loaded from the file that > locate-library returns.
That will probably work fine most of the time, but what if a package is restructed so that the feature names are different? Or a feature is removed? Simply starting a fresh Emacs seems fine to me. Though there is the issue of should it be a `-Q' one or not. BTW, I was also thinking that rather than simply byte-recompiling, package.el ought to check for a Makefile in the package directory, and if it finds one, call make to build the package according to the rules the package has defined. Though you would have to trust the package not to do anything nasty.
