[jira] [Created] (CB-5060) Plugman should not auto-remove installed plugins

["Mike Billau (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mike Billau created CB-5060:
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             Summary: Plugman should not auto-remove installed plugins
                 Key: CB-5060
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5060
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Plugman
            Reporter: Mike Billau


If you install a plugin manually as a top level plugin, but that plugin is also used as a dependency for a second plugin, then removing the second plugin *should not* remove the first plugin. Currently, this is the behavior:

{noformat}
cordova plugin add file
cordova plugin add file-transfer
cordova plugin ls
[file, file-transfer]
cordova plugin rm file-transfer
cordova plugin ls
[  ]
{noformat}

If you manually install a plugin, that means you are planning to use it. If another plugin depends on it, great, that's fine, whatever, but if you later decide not to use the consuming plugin, it shouldn't remove the one that you added.

This is different than the reference counting issue in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5056



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