[racket] Should `raco pkg update <x>` presume --update-deps?

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel like my understanding of the new pkg mgr is getting better as a
> pkg dev, but I need more experience with it as a pkg user.  For
> example:
>
> I just had a situation where a user of Frog needed to update the
> markdown parser package it uses (and the updated markdown package in
> turns adds a new dep, on Stephen Chang's Parsack package).
>
> I told the user to do
>
>     raco pkg update frog
>
> But it didn't seem to update markdown for them or install parsack.
>
> Sam helpfully pointed out that maybe I'd wanted to tell them this instead:
>
>     raco pkg update --update-deps frog
>
> I'm still waiting to hear back from the user if that worked. But
> assuming it did:
>
> I can't think of a situation where you'd want to update a package, but
> not its deps. If such a situation exists, it seems like the
> less-common case.
>
> So I wonder if `raco pkg update <x>` should presume --update-deps. And
> if there were a flag, it should be a --no--update-deps.
>
> tl;dr swap the default behavior and add a negative flag?
>
>
> p.s. Although I had updated the markdown version (in its info.rkt), I
> had _not_ updated the required version of it (in frog's info.rkt). My
> thinking was, frog doesn't require the newer version to build
> correctly. However maybe I should update it, since the newer version
> is highly desirable. But even if I had done so, I'm not sure that
> `raco pkg update frog` would have updated without --update-deps.

It would have, because you couldn't have installed the new frog
without the update. (It probably would not have done it automatically
though, it would use a dialog.)

How could the user have "needed" to update the dependency but Frog
doesn't actually require the features of new dependency? In what sense
was it "needed"?

Jay

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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
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