Uninstalling a package also removes the corresponding package in /dev/packages

[danielbayley]

…and removes it completely; not even just to the trash.

[lee-dohm]

I was unable to reproduce this using Atom v1.2.0-dev-d2fdc41 on Mac OS X 10.11.1. Here's what I tried:

1. Find a package I have installed in ~/.atom/packages (I picked sort-lines)
2. Clone the package to my normal source directory
3. Link the package using apm link --dev
4. Use ls -l ~/.atom/dev/packages to verify the link exists
5. Execute apm uninstall sort-lines
6. Use ls -l ~/.atom/packages to verify sort-lines was uninstalled
7. Use ls -l ~/.atom/dev/packages to verify the link still exists
8. Use ls -l ~/Source/sort-lines to ensure that the cloned repository still exists

Did you do something different? If so, what? What did you expect to happen? And what did happen exactly?

(Also please include which version of Atom you were running and what OS and version you are on.)

[danielbayley]

This happens if I do apm develop on an existing [installed] package (since I want to contribute to it), and so then have duplicate packages under $ATOM_HOME/packages and $ATOM_HOME/dev/packages. If I then uninstall the original package from within Atom they both get erased. I would expect that the $ATOM_HOME/dev/packages/package would be left in tact.

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OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Atom 1.0.19

$ apm -v
apm  1.0.5
npm  2.13.3
node 0.10.40
python 2.7.10

$ env | egrep 'ATOM|NPM'
ATOM_DEV_RESOURCE_PATH=/Users/Dan/Library/Application Support/Atom/dev/packages
ATOM_HOME=/Users/Dan/Library/Application Support/Atom
ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN=▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
ATOM_REPOS_HOME=/Users/Dan/Library/Application Support/Atom/dev/packages
NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/Users/Dan/Library/Scripts/Libraries/js

atom.config.get('core.projectHome') = ~/Library/Application Support/Atom/dev/packages