[CB-5060] Plugman should not auto-remove installed plugins

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: cordova-plugman
• Assignee: Braden Shepherdson
• Reporter: Michael Billau
• Created: 11/Oct/13 13:14
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:29
• Resolved: 21/Oct/13 20:20

Description

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:

cordova plugin add file
cordova plugin add file-transfer
cordova plugin ls
[file, file-transfer]
cordova plugin rm file-transfer
cordova plugin ls
[  ]

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

Issue Links

• relates to: CB-5056 Removing a plugin with dependencies removes the dependencies also