From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Cc: lunaryorn@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
14967@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#14967: 24.3.50; package-delete deletes by trashing?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ocr2yp6j6x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2yp2dmw.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex's message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:45:59 -0600")
Alex wrote:
> Is that a good idea for new behaviour that results in potential data
> loss (from the view of a user that expects `package-delete' to trash
> files rather than outright deleting them)? It might be easy to gloss
> over an entry in NEWS, after all.
IMO there's no real potential for data loss, since you can just
reinstall the package from its source. (I assume this is what people do
in practice, rather than un-trashing.) Although "source is no longer
available" is in theory possible, in practice I don't think it's a real
concern.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-12 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-27 10:30 bug#14967: 24.3.50; package-delete deletes by trashing? Sebastian Wiesner
2013-07-29 22:02 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-30 10:51 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-07-30 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-30 14:40 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-07-30 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-05 23:40 ` npostavs
2016-09-03 4:06 ` Alex
2017-06-11 23:58 ` npostavs
2017-06-12 3:26 ` Alex
2017-06-12 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 16:03 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-12 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 16:56 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-12 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-14 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-12 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-12 19:45 ` Alex
2017-06-12 20:32 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-06-13 3:50 ` Alex
2017-06-19 18:47 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-12 19:37 ` Alex
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