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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:10:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3p1vy4e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31v5in6m1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Wed,  15 Dec 2010 13:06:30 -0700")

> I think the current behavior is better.
> Usually installing something that has the same or lesser version is a
> user error.  Only a subset of users will actually want to
> force-overwrite a package.

I mostly agree, but also agree that reinstalling is an important case.
Is there any reason prompting the user is not a good solution?


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17  4:10 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 [this message]
2010-12-17 14:17           ` Tom Tromey
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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