From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14967: 24.3.50; package-delete deletes by trashing? Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k2et39vp.fsf@gmail.com> <87efuqulfb.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87o9tt51k3.fsf@gmail.com> <83bmpt5li4.fsf@gnu.org> <83y3sx414w.fsf@gnu.org> <83shj53zo1.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2yp2dmw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497299586 15742 195.159.176.226 (12 Jun 2017 20:33:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:33:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: lunaryorn@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier , 14967@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Alex Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 12 22:33:03 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW1G-0003mW-Ar for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:33:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW1L-00062q-Nn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW1G-00062k-Ls for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW1G-0007tX-2a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW1F-0007tT-VV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW1F-0000bB-Pe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:33:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:33:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14967 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 14967-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14967.14972995632276 (code B ref 14967); Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:33:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14967) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jun 2017 20:32:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44073 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW0x-0000ae-9p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46368) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW0v-0000aP-E9 for 14967@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW0p-0007nq-It for 14967@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW0e-0007kl-5I; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dKW0c-0002pf-Q9; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:32:22 -0400 X-Spook: industrial intelligence Lightning FTS2000 Radiation X-Ran: JX|{&.wEW)9VEMYd@Z>6S7 (Alex's message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:45:59 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133535 Archived-At: Alex wrote: > Is that a good idea for new behaviour that results in potential data > loss (from the view of a user that expects `package-delete' to trash > files rather than outright deleting them)? It might be easy to gloss > over an entry in NEWS, after all. IMO there's no real potential for data loss, since you can just reinstall the package from its source. (I assume this is what people do in practice, rather than un-trashing.) Although "source is no longer available" is in theory possible, in practice I don't think it's a real concern.