From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: 24493@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24493: 25.1; Delete dependency in package manager
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:49:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6059456-8067-1f0b-705b-2792fe3d932d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuoogknc.fsf@web.de>
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On 2016-09-25 09:43, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When deleting a dependency in the package manager (flag dependency
>> with d, then execute action with x), the minibuffer reads "Package
>> manager: Operation finished [deleted 1]". However, deletion did not
>> take place because the FORCE flag has not been given to
>> `package-delete'.
>
> Indeed, I saw that too yesterday. The current behavior is very
> confusing to the end user. It's important to fix this.
I think it would be nice to mark reverse dependencies of the package for deletion, instead of silently skipping it. Maybe pressing d on a dependency could prompt: "this will also uninstall x, y, z, continue?".
Clément.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-25 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-21 9:15 bug#24493: 25.1; Delete dependency in package manager Dominik Schrempf
2016-09-25 13:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-25 14:49 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-09-25 17:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
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