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From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wipe-sysroot: explain what is being deleted and require confirmation
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 21:04:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383339883.8901.42.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383335233-12366-1-git-send-email-ross.burton@intel.com>

On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 19:47 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> Instead of rushing into deleting entire directory trees without any warning,
> print the directories and files that will be deleted and require confirmation
> from the user (via --force) that they want files to be deleted.

"--force" seems like a bit of an odd name for an argument that you have
to supply in order for the script to do anything useful.  Why would the
user be running a script named "wipe-sysroot" if they didn't want the
sysroot to be deleted?

p.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-01 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-01 19:47 [PATCH] wipe-sysroot: explain what is being deleted and require confirmation Ross Burton
2013-11-01 21:04 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2013-11-01 23:21   ` Burton, Ross
2013-11-02 16:19     ` Phil Blundell

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