From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:17:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ipysbi0g.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd3p1vy4e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:10:26 -0500")
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
Tom> I think the current behavior is better.
Tom> Usually installing something that has the same or lesser version is a
Tom> user error. Only a subset of users will actually want to
Tom> force-overwrite a package.
Stefan> I mostly agree, but also agree that reinstalling is an important case.
Stefan> Is there any reason prompting the user is not a good solution?
As long as the prompt is clear that this is probably not what you meant,
I guess it is ok.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 14:17 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
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 [this message]
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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