How to override the :hook section of a use-package declaration

Question

I am attempting to change the :hook section of a use-package declaration that I cannot directly modify. In my case, I want to remove hooks that are getting set, not just add more hooks. Is there a way to do this similar to how the :init and :config sections can be modified via use-package-inject-hooks?

Reference points:

1. The use-package library provides a use-package-inject-hooks variable that can be enabled in order to activate hooks for the :init and :config sections:

   [use-package-inject-hooks]
   
   If non-nil, add hooks to the `:init' and `:config' sections.
   In particular, for a given package `foo', the following hooks
   become available:
   
     `use-package--foo--pre-init-hook'
     `use-package--foo--post-init-hook'
     `use-package--foo--pre-config-hook'
     `use-package--foo--post-config-hook'
   
   This way, you can add to these hooks before evaluation of a
   `use-package` declaration, and exercise some control over what
   happens.
   
   NOTE: These hooks are run even if the user does not specify an
   `:init' or `:config' block, and they will happen at the regular
   time when initialization and configuration would have been
   performed.
   
   NOTE: If the `pre-init' hook return a nil value, that block's
   user-supplied configuration is not evaluated, so be certain to
   return t if you only wish to add behavior to what the user had
   specified.
   

2. The :hook section provides an alternate interface for special-case usage of the :init section (see documentation):

   The :hook keyword allows adding functions onto package hooks. Thus, all of the following are equivalent:

   (use-package ace-jump-mode
     :hook prog-mode)
   
   (use-package ace-jump-mode
     :hook (prog-mode . ace-jump-mode))
   
   (use-package ace-jump-mode
     :commands ace-jump-mode
     :init
     (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'ace-jump-mode))
   

Given the above two points, I thought that maybe hooking into the :init section using use-package-inject-hooks would allow me to override the :hook section, but that was not the case. Looking at the source code for use-package, I can see that :hook and :init are implemented differently (:hook is not a special wrapper for :init) so I can see why that would not work.

Any advice would be much appreciated. (On that note... I suppose a clever use of the advice mechanism in Emacs could provide a workaround, which I hadn't considered until I wrote that last sentence. That said, I would like to avoid such a kludge if possible.)

Answer 1

I think something has gone wrong if you can't modify the use-package form -- AFAIK that macro is intended for use by end-users only.

That said, the documentation you've quoted:

all of the following are equivalent:

(use-package ace-jump-mode
  :hook prog-mode)

(use-package ace-jump-mode
  :hook (prog-mode . ace-jump-mode))

(use-package ace-jump-mode
  :commands ace-jump-mode
  :init
  (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'ace-jump-mode))

suggests to me that you can probably just do the following (subsequent to loading the above code):

(with-eval-after-load 'ace-jump-mode
  (remove-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'ace-jump-mode))