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 main.c perform.c ...

[Bruce A. Mah]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 20:09, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:58:58AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'll write a patch then.
> 
> [ I said some of this to Oliver privately but it's probably worth
> saying louder... ]
> 
> First thank you, the effort is appreciated.
> 
> Second some people had asked that this be backed out.  It sounds like
> Oliver is agreeable to adding -c so I'm OK with his previous commit
> remaining in RELENG_4 as long as adding -c doesn't take too long.
> Despite some users who probably shouldn't be tracking RELENG_4, it
> *is* the -stable *development* branch.  Paranoid users should at this
> point be tracking RELENG_4_10 instead.  Having -c disappear from
> RELENG_4 for a brief time is OK as long as it re-appears in a reasonable
> amount of time (and way before we start talking 4.11-RELEASE).

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).

Peace,

Bruce.

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