Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

alson+ml_at_alm.flutnet.org wrote:
> * Doug Barton <dougb_at_FreeBSD.org> [2009-07-29 20:48]:
>> How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag
>> files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do
>> anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good?
> 
> Sounds like a good solution for both problems (stale flag files and
> unexpected removal). 

Thanks.

> It should default to removing the files with -u. 

I'm planning to remove the -u option altogether. It actually does very
little now, and certainly does not do what most users expect it should
do.

Doug

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