portmaster not ask for port deletion

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 28 17:20:24 UTC 2009


Skip Ford wrote:

> So, basically, portmaster stopped and asked for input because it thought I
> might've forgotten that I installed an +IGNOREME file 10 minutes prior.
> I'd prefer to not have tools that try to "think" about what I'm doing.
> It should do what I say it should do, not what it thinks I may have meant.
> Certainly, enough information was provided by me for portmaster to DTRT
> without causing any harm whatsoever if it didn't request input.

You obviously have very strong opinions about how you think portmaster
should operate, however you don't seem to be listening to my response.
So I'll say it one more time then I'll leave it alone.

No matter how strongly one user, or one group of users feels that
their idea of how a tool should operate is The Right Way, there will
always be other users who feel differently. Given that I also prefer
"to not have tools that try to 'think' about what I'm doing," when a
situation is ambiguous portmaster prompts the user.


Doug


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