Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

PH> To be honest, I'd prefer it if overwriting were the default behaviour
PH> for all installations, but I hesitated to suggest a wide-sweeping
PH> change like that. =) 

Ted> I think that's reasonable, since the user chooses what to upgrade from
Ted> the package list.  Chong, Stefan, what do you think?

I think the current behavior is better.
Usually installing something that has the same or lesser version is a
user error.  Only a subset of users will actually want to
force-overwrite a package.

A prefix argument would be ok by me.
Or just a new command.

Tom