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Finding packages not managed by pallet

After initialising pallet for my package managment I forgot to add the requisite line to my init.el :(

Having now added:

(pallet-mode t)

To my init.el is there a way to diagnose which (if any) packages are not under pallet and cask's control?

Thanks

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I'm not sure wether cask really rewrites the Cask file, cause I have two (independent) installations, that both have missing entries in the Cask-file that are nevertheless installed in the `.cask` folder.

Since I'm not really an elisp hacker (but try to become one), for now I only have a tcl script that writes out a Cask files that mirrors the current installed packages.

    #!/usr/bin/env tclsh
    #
    # get-installed-cask ?cask-archive?
    # print out a Cask-file with all currently installed packages

    if {[llength $argv] > 0} {
        cd [lindex $argv 0]
    }

    set names [exec find elpa/ -maxdepth 1 -type d]

    proc getName {fn} {
        set sub ""
        regexp {elpa/(.*)-[01-9.]+} $fn all sub
        return $sub
    }

    foreach name $names {
        set name [string trim $name]
        set new [getName $name]
        switch $new {
    	"" -
    	"archives" -
    	"gnupg" {
    	    ; # nothing
    	}
    	default {
    	    lappend result $new
    	}
        }
    }

    set result [lsort -dictionary $result]

    puts "(source gnu)
    (source melpa)
    (source org)
    "

    foreach name $result {
        puts "(depends-on \"$name\")"
    }

Call it with the cask-archive directory that you want to enumerate:

    get-installed-cask ~/.emacs.d/.cask/24.5.1/

Simply use diff (meld or ...) to see the differences.

And BTW: change the hardcoded list of repositories to suite your installation.

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