GNU bug report logs - #29586
Please revert change to package deletion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Adam Porter <adam <at> alphapapa.net>

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 00:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 29586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: adam <at> alphapapa.net, 29586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#29586: Please revert change to package deletion
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:59:40 -0500

I don't have a strong opinion, but:

I don't know of any package management system that when uninstalling a
binary package moves all the files to a trash directory. It seems to me
this is being used in lieu of some features other package systems do
implement, and that package.el could benefit from:

a transaction history
a downgrade command
a rollback command
caching of the _source_ when installing a package
package archives that provide convenient access to old versions
 (maybe this exists for elpas, I don't know)
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