Request: --force flag to reinstall packages #2164
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
It's inconvenient to have to manually uninstall then reinstall as two separate commands. This relates to the complexity of many ASDF programming language plugins, as well as ASDF entering states of data corruption when components silently fail to install correctly.
Describe the proposed solution
For convenience, would be really useful to provide a --force flag to trigger uninstall followed by reinstall.
Describe similar asdf features and why they are not sufficient
asdf uninstall with asdf install is cumbersome.
Also, a single command tends to integrate better in larger shell scripts than multiple commands. There is no truly portable syntax to express the AND conjunection of two commands (not all shell interpreters are POSIX compliant).
Describe other workarounds you've considered
Bypassing ASDF and installing software development components directly.