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Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:28:23 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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?

Ted




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