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 ...

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Bruce A. Mah <bmah at 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 at mu.org cell: 408-480-4684