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Michal Mocny commented on CB-4735:
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There are two use cases:
(1) The traditional suggested "add-ons" a la package managers, as you mentioned
already. They are not installed automatically, just listed for your
convenience. They likely have low(er) usage counts.
(2) Installed by default, but removable without harm.
Specific example for (2) is Logger plugin for iOS, which we have discussed as
always installing by default, but supporting removal without needing some sort
of --force.
Someone on the mailing list also asked for "plugin aliases" which would be a
curated list of plugins to install as dependencies, but could still be removed
individually after the fact.
Perhaps another way of looking at it is that we have three category of
dependency: required (the current default), regular (my request with this
JIRA), suggested (traditionally supported by package manager)
> Support optional plugin dependancies
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> Key: CB-4735
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4735
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: CLI, Plugman
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Michal Mocny
> Assignee: Braden Shepherdson
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> plugins (and perhaps soon apps, and perhaps some future day platforms, too)
> support plugin dependencies. However, right now all dependents are mandatory
> for the successful use of the depending plugin. It would be nice to be able
> to list optional dependencies which allow for conditional enhancement, but
> are not a core requirement.
> One quick example: Logger for iOS would be a nice default dependency of the
> platform, but should be safely removeable, and CLI should remember and
> respect the users decision to remove it if they chose to.
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