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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, 29586@debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#29586: Please revert change to package deletion
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:59:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bua7ytxfqr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mv2twl5w.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:47:55 +0200")


I don't have a strong opinion, but:

I don't know of any package management system that when uninstalling a
binary package moves all the files to a trash directory. It seems to me
this is being used in lieu of some features other package systems do
implement, and that package.el could benefit from:

a transaction history
a downgrade command
a rollback command
caching of the _source_ when installing a package
package archives that provide convenient access to old versions
 (maybe this exists for elpas, I don't know)





  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-08 17:59 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 [this message]
2017-12-08 18:22     ` Adam Porter
2017-12-09  5:50     ` John Wiegley
2017-12-09  8:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
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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