From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: package.el dependencies
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:54:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppa1n9xr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-LJmZ_RmkC0dmeS4_V9C+5dLuj2C2AhFEpLn1y5XyZFGA@mail.gmail.com>
Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:
>> I don't think it will be enough, we will have to store also a plain list
>> of the package to autoremove because the info about the dependencies in
>> package-alist will not be anymore available when deinstalling a package
>> unless autoremove is launched right now before quitting emacs, which is
>> not what we want.
>
> I think the orphan dependencies should be autoremoved immediately
> after the package is deleted,
No, not necessarily, it should not be an obligation, one can delete a
package and make a cleanup later, it is what apt-get does.
> so we don't need to save a list of packages to be autoremoved. Here
> are two ways I can see it happen.
>
> 1. When the user marks packages for deletion and then hits x, the
> package transaction is performed as usual. Afterwards, we run a
> function which loops through all packages and detect the ones that are
> not needed by anything nor installed explicitly (the orphans) and
> offer to delete them too.
No, see above.
> I agree. Why would we have kept it in this list? If a package is
> deleted (without a newer version installed) it is removed from the
> list.
You assume the dependencies unneeded are removed straight after
deleting, which is not the case.
>> package-alist, so we will have to fetch these infos again, recompute the
>> autoremove list etc... IMO it is simpler to delete the package from the
>> packages-installed-directly list as soon it is removed and store also the
>> autoremove list.
>
> Why does this imply the need for an autoremove list?
Same see above.
--
Thierry
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-23 13:37 package.el dependencies Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-23 13:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-23 14:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-23 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 21:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-24 0:50 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-24 4:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-25 6:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 7:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 9:19 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-26 9:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2015-01-26 12:46 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-26 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-27 6:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-27 11:52 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-25 9:18 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-25 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-25 15:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-25 17:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-25 18:32 ` Stephen Leake
2015-01-25 18:21 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-26 4:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 12:35 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-26 12:53 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-26 15:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-27 6:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 16:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-28 7:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-28 8:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-28 12:42 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-28 13:17 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-28 14:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-28 13:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-28 10:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-28 11:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-28 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-28 19:50 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-28 20:12 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-28 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-29 5:31 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-29 7:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-30 5:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-30 16:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-30 17:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-31 6:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-31 10:58 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-31 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
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2015-02-02 20:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 21:37 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-03 4:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-03 5:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-03 10:04 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-03 14:06 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-03 5:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-03 10:05 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-03 10:18 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-03 11:39 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-02 21:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 21:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-02-03 11:39 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-03 11:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-31 6:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-31 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-31 22:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-31 23:26 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-01 6:29 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-01 7:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-01 15:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-01 23:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-02 12:00 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-02 13:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 14:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 14:56 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-02 15:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 15:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 15:50 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-02 16:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-02-02 21:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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