Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:31:07 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add Makefile add.h extract.c futil.c main.c perform.c pkg_add.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create Makefile create.h main.c perform.c pkg_create.1 pl.c src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete Makefile delete.h main.c perform.c ... Message-ID: <20040812053107.GK57908@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <1092287083.796.29.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> References: <20040812012909.GA25768@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <2CD52765-EC03-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <20040812030913.GD27338@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <1092287083.796.29.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
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* Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> [040811 22:06] wrote: > > I'm not sure if I want to be replying to this thread, but I might have a > thing or two to say about this subject. > > As the original author of pkg_version (the Perl one), I wish I had never > added the -c option. Of the users I have talked to who used this > option, the majority used it wrongly (as a package updating script). In > hindsight, this was basically a foot-shooting device. :-( > > If anyone had asked me about this before jumping all over eik@, I would > have recommended that we lose the option as a service to our users. > Sorry, but that's the way I feel. > > In any case, thanks to eik@ for doing the work, and thanks to everyone > else who believed they were doing The Right Thing (TM). I sent a private mail to eik@ thanking him for being so cool as to fix this. Now that I think about I should also be saying thank you for the MFC itself, which I am thankful for. But wouldn't it suck to be that user that actually does use '-c' correctly, and to have it suddenly gone in the middle of a "stable" release? thanks, -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
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