Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:26:47 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: audit@FreeBSD.org, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: adding -P option to pkg_delete(1) Message-ID: <86zo8u533s.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <3B80F6EC.948F7633@FreeBSD.org> References: <86ofpl0yq8.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <200108122310.f7CNAUZ01898@green.bikeshed.org> <86k804weed.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <3B80E75F.4C1C578F@FreeBSD.org> <864rr355y7.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <3B80F6EC.948F7633@FreeBSD.org>
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At Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:39:24 +0300,
sobomax wrote:
> > At Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:33:03 +0300,
> > sobomax wrote:
> > > Please hold on. What is the purpose of this feature? I can't recall
> > > any discussion regarding the topic.
> >
> > It's okay, but why don't you just try to read the patch in which the
> > purpose of the feature is *explicitly* written?
>
> Well, perhaps you misread my question. I meant "what the code in question
> is expected to be used for?", not "what the code in question does?". Also
I don't differentiate the two, or three. All your questions above
sounds pointless to me. What are you implying actually?
> idea to hardcode regex (two of them actually) into an utility doesn't
> looks very solid to me, instead I would like to see it be specificable
> (or at least overrideable) from the command line, i.e.:
>
> # pkg_delete -P ^.\*foo.bar foo-0.0
> (don't delete files which end with `foo.bar').
Sounds interesting, but I'm afraid it would be superfluous, I mean you
might be doing YAGNI[*], since I don't see why we need this extension
as much as we just need to preserve shared libraries.
I suggest you explain the expected use of it, that is, what for
example you want to preserve other than old shared libraries.
Regards,
[*] YAGNI = "You Aren't Gonna Need It!"
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