Package manager cannot update packages if a package has error

Hello friends ^_^

Upon updating to 2018.3, several packages (analytics and post processing) had errors - this is natural, of course - api's change!

However, there was no way to update these packages, since the package manager code (being a package) wasn't compiled, due to the errors.

My solution was to go into the packages and gut any lines that had issues, and then after compiling successfully, updating the packages.

Is there a plan to make the package manager part of Unity, and thus not having this issue?

Thanks!
Josh

 

Yeah it came up multiple times on the Package Manager forums.
AFAIK they have no intention to "make it part of unity".
They're working on a solution but no ETA, last time they explained that to fix this, the compiler should be changed (to compile package manager and other built-in stuff first without depending on any other code).