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From: Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com>
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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:05:29 -0700
Subject: Re: Uninstallation of dependency-only plugins
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Added comments to the issue thread. The tests no longer pass + we'll need
new tests to cover your changes.

On 7/4/13 8:21 PM, "Ian Clelland" <iclelland@google.com> wrote:

>Thanks, Fil,
>
>Created CB-4077 to track this. I'll start working on separating those
>functions.
>
>Ian
>
>On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> File an issue over at issues.cordova.io, tag plugman, and we can go from
>> there
>>
>> On 7/4/13 12:59 PM, "Ian Clelland" <iclelland@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> >This is the first time I've tried to use the CLI tools with the new 3.0
>> >project structure, and I've discovered that I can't uninstall a plugin
>> >that
>> >only has dependencies (no source files, either JS or native)
>> >
>> >Specifically, I've built a mobilespec app, installing
>> >the mobile-spec-dependencies plugin, which does nothing but depend on
>> >every
>> >Cordova core plugin. I want to remove it, so that I can remove and
>> >reinstall one of the dependencies, but the CLI tools will not remove
>>it.
>> >
>> >Digging through cordova-cli, it looks like "cordova plugin rm"
>>attempts to
>> >invoke plugman.uninstall once per platform, but
>>mobile-spec-dependencies
>> >doesn't declare any platforms.
>> >
>> >plugman.uninstall seems to do two things, which I think should be
>> >separated: It removes the plugin from a specific platform, and it
>>removes
>> >the plugin from the project itself.
>> >
>> >In the case of a dependency-only plugin, we only need to do the second
>> >task
>> >(which currently doesn't get done). For a regular plugin which is
>> >installed
>> >in multiple platforms, this also fails, since removing the plugin for
>>the
>> >first platform deletes the plugin source directory, and then removal
>>for
>> >subsequent platforms fails with the error message "[Error: Plugin
>><plugin
>> >id> not found. Already uninstalled?]"
>> >
>> >Can anyone explain the technical reasons behind this, or should I work
>>on
>> >separating those functions?
>>
>>