Subject: Re: bug#24493: 25.1; Delete dependency in package manager

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:49:56 -0400

On 2016-09-25 09:43, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Dominik Schrempf <[email-masked]> 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.