From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:06:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31v5in6m1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y67rytjc.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:55:51 -0600")
>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
PH> To be honest, I'd prefer it if overwriting were the default behaviour
PH> for all installations, but I hesitated to suggest a wide-sweeping
PH> change like that. =)
Ted> I think that's reasonable, since the user chooses what to upgrade from
Ted> the package list. Chong, Stefan, what do you think?
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.
A prefix argument would be ok by me.
Or just a new command.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-15 20:06 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 [this message]
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
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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