> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
> > I don't think I agree. Installation of an external package
> shouldn't be
> > doing --delete-package first: that should be left to the
> user (or rpm
> > -e, or whatever).
>
> rpm is a different story. I would expect 'make install' to be
> id
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I don't think I agree. Installation of an external package shouldn't be
> doing --delete-package first: that should be left to the user (or rpm
> -e, or whatever).
rpm is a different story. I would expect 'make install' to be idempotent.
With your sche
> In practice installation script of an external package does
> --del-package before --add-package, because if it was
> installed before,
> --add-package would cause an error.
>
> Wouldn't be reasonable then to let --add-package overwrite
> any existing
> package of that name? There is no real
