> But even if Emacs guarantees that, we still have to have some way for
> emacsen-common to know that's the situation.
To the extent that neither aptitude nor dpkg offers a way for the user
to use something like a --force flag to ignore the problems, signaling
an error there should be limited to the utmost terrible cases where the
world is about to end.
Even in the very unlikely case that the package is somehow faulty,
I *much* prefer being able to install it, discover that it's faulty and
then remove it, then being left in the dark and told "sorry, we're not
100% sure that it will always work, so you can't even try using it".
Especially since the "100% sure" is not even true. There can be plenty
of other errors which don't prevent installation but prevent use.
I used the word "mean" before to describe the behavior, but the word
I wanted to use was "obnoxious".
Stefan
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