From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, 29586@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29586: Please revert change to package deletion
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:58:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h8t0uvjz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lgic30wo.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:50:31 -0800)
> From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
> Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, 29586@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:50:31 -0800
>
> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> EZ> The problem is that many users have their packages auto-updated, so the
> EZ> trash piles up quite quickly.
>
> Not to be contentious, but how much of an impact could that really have for
> Emacs packages? I use >350 packages, and my site-lisp is 400M. Even if I
> auto-updated everything, every day, that's *still* ~1% of my disk, which is
> what I usually allocate for trash accumulation.
The disk space is not the issue, I think, not nowadays. I believe the
issue is the _number_ of files in the trash: if there are an awful lot
of them, they make looking for those "precious" mistakenly deleted
files harder. Or at least this is my understanding; I don't use
trash, so have no experience of my own to share.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-09 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 0:20 bug#29586: Please revert change to package deletion Adam Porter
2017-12-06 0:46 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-08 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-08 17:59 ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-08 18:22 ` Adam Porter
2017-12-09 5:50 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-09 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-09 9:08 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-09 18:55 ` Adam Porter
2022-02-03 19:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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