From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:28:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjy03uyw.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTimSGUHG2jEiXtWGvveExrRHgaG5rd6hUj-2w-9D@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:21:28 -0800 Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org> wrote:
PH> While doing development of packages using package.el, I often find
PH> myself reinstalling packages using M-x package-install-from-buffer.
PH> However, this is a bit cumbersome because I have to remember to delete
PH> the old version of the package out of my .emacs.d first. It would be
PH> nice for package-install-from-buffer to be able to take a prefix
PH> argument or something that would delete the package before attempting
PH> to install it.
PH> I volunteer to implement this if it's desired.
Asking the user to give a prefix argument puts a burden on them. Can
`package-install-from-buffer' figure out if it needs to delete the old
package on its own, with maybe a y-or-n prompt at the end?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-14 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 18:21 Forcing reinstall in package.el Phil Hagelberg
2010-12-14 21:28 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-12-15 1:27 ` Phil Hagelberg
2010-12-15 14:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 20:06 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-15 21:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-29 20:08 ` Phil Hagelberg
2011-01-19 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-10 18:05 ` [PATCH] " Phil Hagelberg
2011-02-12 1:18 ` Chong Yidong
2010-12-17 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-17 14:17 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-17 14:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-17 15:56 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-18 15:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-21 15:42 ` Tom Tromey
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