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

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Message #26 received at 29586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: adam <at> alphapapa.net, 29586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29586: Please revert change to package deletion
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:08:35 -0800

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The disk space is not the issue, I think, not nowadays. I believe the issue
> is the _number_ of files in the trash: if there are an awful lot of them,
> they make looking for those "precious" mistakenly deleted files harder. Or
> at least this is my understanding; I don't use trash, so have no experience
> of my own to share.

That I can buy. A daily update in my case would result in half a million files
over the course of a month.

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John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
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