From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: 44306@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44306: package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:34:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkxA+jxC3rJpa-L+sRQhZ4NjZNfyTmX-Xvk2ARe4wd8wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg9vhn7w.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> When attempting to perform package-autoremove to clean up obsolete
>> packages, my emacs would abort with an error that `foo' is a system
>> package. Thus, it had become impossible to perform the operation. I
>> altered function package-delete to replace its two calls to function
>> `error' with simple `message' and can now clean up the packages.
>
> It kinda sounds like there something wrong in what package-autoremove is
> trying to delete.
Indeed. The question is why these packages are considered for removal
at all.
If we can avoid doing that, the error "Package `%s' is used by `%s' as
dependency, not deleting" seems correct to me - it will catch bugs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 12:52 bug#44306: package-delete exiting on encountering system/dependency packages Boruch Baum
2020-10-30 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 13:34 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-11-01 2:48 ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-01 12:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-01 14:33 ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-01 2:35 ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-01 2:50 ` Stefan Kangas
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