"portmanager -s" deletes ports?

[RW]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 00:25:31 +1000
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200
> Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> 
> > This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of 
> > installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. 
> 
> I agree that is not clear why it is removing ports without warning. 

Well, we don't actually know that.  I suspect that there was a warning,
but it went to stdout and was eaten by "|grep OLD". Portmanger then
waited for a y/n response for 5 minutes, and went with the default of
deleting the port.