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[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:49:42AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:31:07PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It is a broken mis-feature.  Please tell me how you managed to
> make it work properly.  Do you have some sort of script that
> sorts the output in order by dependency tree?  Or do you actually
> go through it every time and sort it by hand?  Do you think that
> it's justified that so many other users who didn't know what they
> were doing shot themselves in the foot?
> 
> portupgrade is a much better tool.  How about simply replacing -c
> with a message suggesting use of that instead?

These discussions happen every time something like this happens.
The fact is that the development community have an agreement with the
userbase that we will not do this.  The fact that we all think that -c
is shit doesn't change that.

re@ need to make the call and everyone else, including myself, should
shut the hell up (and doubly so, since re and eik have already agreed a
resolution).

Ceri
-- 
It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin.  I am a robot.
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