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#29586
Please revert change to package deletion
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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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>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
EZ> The problem is that many users have their packages auto-updated, so the
EZ> trash piles up quite quickly.
Not to be contentious, but how much of an impact could that really have for
Emacs packages? I use >350 packages, and my site-lisp is 400M. Even if I
auto-updated everything, every day, that's *still* ~1% of my disk, which is
what I usually allocate for trash accumulation.
Your argument that no other package system replaces packages by moving them to
the trash is valid, though; I don't know of any that do that. Thus, I can't
argue that it's the right thing to do here.
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