From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:48:27 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <871v5g4fr8.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87sjy03uyw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y67rytjc.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292597849 14134 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2010 14:57:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:57:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 17 15:57:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTbkK-0001Qu-Ph for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:57:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTbg8-0007Zm-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44017 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTbc5-0005OE-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTbc4-00040U-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:48:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTbc3-0003zJ-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:48:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTbbt-0003kD-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:48:41 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:48:41 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:48:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NfiHLRpDb1yYHXlkToSAo8VH4H0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133767 Archived-At: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:17:51 -0700 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier 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? Tom> As long as the prompt is clear that this is probably not what you meant, Tom> I guess it is ok. How about handling the two cases (same and older version) separately: "Do you really want to install the same version of %s again? (y/n/Y/N) " "You have %s version %s installed, are you sure you want the older version %s? (y/n/Y/N) " ...and the user can turn those prompts off with package-expert-noprompts or something like that. Ted