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Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el |
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Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:55:51 -0600 |
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:27:55 -0800 Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden> wrote:
PH> 2010/12/14 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:21:28 -0800 Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
PH> While doing development of packages using package.el, I often find
PH> myself reinstalling packages using M-x package-install-from-buffer.
PH> However, this is a bit cumbersome because I have to remember to delete
PH> the old version of the package out of my .emacs.d first. It would be
PH> nice for package-install-from-buffer to be able to take a prefix
PH> argument or something that would delete the package before attempting
PH> to install it.
>>
PH> I volunteer to implement this if it's desired.
>>
>> Asking the user to give a prefix argument puts a burden on them. Can
>> `package-install-from-buffer' figure out if it needs to delete the old
>> package on its own, with maybe a y-or-n prompt at the end?
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. =)
I think that's reasonable, since the user chooses what to upgrade from
the package list. Chong, Stefan, what do you think?
PH> I agree that overwriting should probably be the default for
PH> package-install-from-buffer especially; confirmation is unnecessary.
Yes, that was the specific use case I had in mind. But maybe there
should be a message with sit-for 2 seconds so the user can tell
something tragic is about to happen.
Ted
- Forcing reinstall in package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/12/14
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/14
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/12/14
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/16
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Tom Tromey, 2010/12/17
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/17
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Tom Tromey, 2010/12/17
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/18
- Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el, Tom Tromey, 2010/12/21