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Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:56:10 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

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

Ted> "You have %s version %s installed, are you sure you want the older version 
%s? (y/n/Y/N) "

I forgot to mention -- installing older versions can break dependencies.
The package activation code will handle this ok (it will not activate
such packages), but it will probably come as a surprise to the user when
some other package stops working.

Tom



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