File an issue over at issues.cordova.io, tag plugman, and we can go from there
On 7/4/13 12:59 PM, "Ian Clelland" <iclell...@google.com> wrote: >This is the first time I've tried to use the CLI tools with the new 3.0 >project structure, and I've discovered that I can't uninstall a plugin >that >only has dependencies (no source files, either JS or native) > >Specifically, I've built a mobilespec app, installing >the mobile-spec-dependencies plugin, which does nothing but depend on >every >Cordova core plugin. I want to remove it, so that I can remove and >reinstall one of the dependencies, but the CLI tools will not remove it. > >Digging through cordova-cli, it looks like "cordova plugin rm" attempts to >invoke plugman.uninstall once per platform, but mobile-spec-dependencies >doesn't declare any platforms. > >plugman.uninstall seems to do two things, which I think should be >separated: It removes the plugin from a specific platform, and it removes >the plugin from the project itself. > >In the case of a dependency-only plugin, we only need to do the second >task >(which currently doesn't get done). For a regular plugin which is >installed >in multiple platforms, this also fails, since removing the plugin for the >first platform deletes the plugin source directory, and then removal for >subsequent platforms fails with the error message "[Error: Plugin <plugin >id> not found. Already uninstalled?]" > >Can anyone explain the technical reasons behind this, or should I work on >separating those functions?
