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bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' s
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Philip Kaludercic |
Subject: |
bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade' |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:25:04 +0000 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:53:52 -0500
>> From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
>>
>> +++
>> *** New command 'package-update'.
>> This command allows you to upgrade packages without using 'M-x
>> list-packages'.
>>
>> +++
>> *** New command 'package-update-all'.
>> This command allows updating all packages without any queries.
>>
>> But, IMHO, these commands should be named 'package-upgrade' and
>> 'package-upgrade-all'.
>
> These commands exist for the last year. I'm not sure how reasonable
> it is to rename them now, they are probably used in umpteen places
> outside Emacs already. Maybe if we leave behind an alias.
>
> And what if someone teaches these commands to downgrade as well, at
> some future time?
>
> Does anyone else have an opinion? Lars, Stefan, Philip?
I don't think that "update" and "upgrade" have that clear of a semantic
difference in practice to necessitate a renaming. E.g. Debian's "apt"
distinguishes between updating (ie. synchronising the local repository
state) and upgrading (fetching and installing newer versions of a
package), while Fedora's dnf bundles both into one step and refers to it
as updating.
The term "update" probably has a minor edge over "upgrade" since it is a
more popular term, that users are more likely to search for.
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Adam Porter, 2023/04/10
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/10
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade',
Philip Kaludercic <=
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Stefan Monnier, 2023/04/10
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Dmitry Gutov, 2023/04/11
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Stefan Monnier, 2023/04/11
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/12
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Stefan Monnier, 2023/04/12
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/12
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Stefan Monnier, 2023/04/12
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Dmitry Gutov, 2023/04/14
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Dmitry Gutov, 2023/04/23
- bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade', Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/24