Ah, thanks. Hadn't thought of looking on Github.

On Monday, 11 August 2014 16:46:12 UTC+2, Isaiah wrote:
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> Yes - just not implemented yet. See some related discussion here:
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7054
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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Job van der Zwan <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> Somehow my Jewel installation got messed up after running Pkg.update(), 
>> giving me "metadata may be ahead of package" error messages. It was easy 
>> enough to fix: deleted the "Jewel" folder, opened Julia again and then ran 
>> Pkg.add("Jewel").
>>
>> However, it made me wonder if a function to do all of that from the Julia 
>> command line might have been more appropriate - not everyone knows about 
>> the .julia folder, and ideally users don't need to interact with it. I 
>> guess I could have tried Pkg.rm followed by Pkg.add (didn't think of that 
>> until after fixing my issue). However, for packages indirectly installed 
>> because they were required by other package that would have the unwanted 
>> effect of them not automatically uninstalling if no other package requires 
>> them. (would Pkg.rm followed by Pkg.resolve have worked in that case?)
>>
>> So in short: would a "Pkg.reinstall()" function be a useful addition to 
>> Julia?
>>
>> (Apologies if this has already been discussed, I did a quick search and 
>> couldn't find any other discussions where this had been brought up. Given 
>> how obvious the functionality seems to be I probably just failed at 
>> searching though)
>>
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