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Re: GNU emacs 21.2-3 packages available


On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:31, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:22, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> >
> >
> >>It does, I think Robert's having a wee bit of memory loss.  He better 
> >>look into some parity memory :-D.
> >>
> >
> >An upgrade is != to an uninstall and install. Setup treats upgrades as
> >atomic actions per package.
> >
> Then why is it that when I upgrade, it always says it is removing all 
> the files from each previous packages? 

Because that is part of the upgrade process. The upgrade is currently
implemented as an uninstall+install pair. The important point is that it
occurs for a single package at a time.

Rob

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