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From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] image.bbclass, kernel.bbclass: create warning file about deleting deploydir files
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:07:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108232107.11656.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E53FA98.1060909@linux.intel.com>

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 20:08:08 you wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 03:27 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > I guess it would, but I'm not sure we really want to be encouraging users
> > to use -f.
> 
> I don't see it as having the same negative conotation as the force
> options to things like rpm and dpkg. Here it just means "I really want
> to run this specific task again, even if you already ran it, likely
> because I know I did something to undo what you just did." :-)

My concern is that not all tasks are repeatable; people could run into all 
sorts of trouble using this option under the wrong circumstances and it might 
be difficult to debug after the fact.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17 18:37 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Couple of fixes to help new users Paul Eggleton
2011-08-17 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] image.bbclass, kernel.bbclass: create warning file about deleting deploydir files Paul Eggleton
2011-08-17 18:41   ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-19 10:27     ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 19:08       ` Darren Hart
2011-08-23 20:07         ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2011-08-23 21:39           ` Koen Kooi
2011-08-23 21:52             ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-22 21:01   ` Koen Kooi
2011-08-23  6:44     ` Anders Darander
2011-08-23  8:33       ` Koen Kooi
2011-08-23  9:22       ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-23  9:32         ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 10:37           ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-17 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] sanity.bbclass: add optional untested host distro warning Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 15:14 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Couple of fixes to help new users Saul Wold

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