Unable to activate lsp-docker

[pedz]

This might be pilot error...

I wanted to use lsp-docker but there was not an el-get recipe for it so I did el-get-elpa-build-local-recipes into /Users/pedz/.config/emacs/el-get/el-get/recipes/elpa. This path is in el-get-recipe-path and it is also the value of el-get-recipe-path-elpa. That might be where I went wrong...

After creating the elpa recipes, I used el-get-list-packages to install lsp-docker and other packages (like lsp-mode). I did this last week sometime.

Today, I noticed that at start up I was getting two errors. This is from memory but roughly they were

Unable to activate lsp-docker
dash-1.14.1 unavailable

In /Users/pedz/.config/emacs/elpa/lsp-docker-20220513.1434/lsp-docker-pkg.el is a requirement for this package.

In list-packages, lsp-docker was marked as installed. I tried installing dash via list-packages but then I got the error that dash was being loaded twice. After poking at it for some time, I finally moved my el-get setup into /Users/pedz/.config/emacs/early-init.el and now el-get is loading up everything before package-activate-all and package-activate-all sees that everything is loaded and does nothing.

One weird thing that seems broken is I installed the proper dash via list-packages and tried three times to delete dash from el-get-list-packages but each time upon restart, el-get would reload dash and then complain that it was being loaded twice.

Otherwise... now that I know about early-init.el, that seems as good a place to put the initialization of el-get as anywhere else.