What is the desired behaviour for addOldPackage() when it creates duplicates?

[andrie]

Right now, this function creates a duplicate and throws a warning

This may leave the repository in an inconsistent state.

Should we remove the duplicate?

[achubaty]

The way I use it is to warn the user and allow them to remove the version of their choosing manually. Perhaps the best behaviour should be to automatically prompt the user to remove one of the versions.

[sebastian-c]

One of the reasons I'm not using miniCRAN is because it doesn't allow archiving of packages as CRAN does. Could archiving be a solution to the duplicate problem?

[achubaty]

@sebastian-c I agree that archiving (see also #80) may help here. Not sure how soon I'll be able to build this.

[andrie]

I agree that archiving is a better solution.