From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 05:31:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEB716A4CE; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:31:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E8E43D2D; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:31:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id A81955C8FE; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:31:07 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Bruce A. Mah" Message-ID: <20040812053107.GK57908@elvis.mu.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1092287083.796.29.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Doug Barton cc: re@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Ken Smith cc: Ceri Davies cc: Oliver Eikemeier 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 ... X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:31:08 -0000 * Bruce A. Mah [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