Re: Forcing reinstall in package.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think the current behavior is better.
> Usually installing something that has the same or lesser version is a
> user error.  Only a subset of users will actually want to
> force-overwrite a package.

I mostly agree, but also agree that reinstalling is an important case.
Is there any reason prompting the user is not a good solution?


        Stefan