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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:00:13 +0200
From:      alson+ml@alm.flutnet.org
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)
Message-ID:  <20090729200013.GB2841@tafi.alm.flutnet.org>
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* Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> [2009-07-29 20:48]:
> How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag
> files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do
> anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good?

Sounds like a good solution for both problems (stale flag files and
unexpected removal). It should default to removing the files with -u. I
think that -R is a very useful feature of portmaster, so I'm happy to
see it getting improved. Thanks!

Alson



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