From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QvxKK-00019S-QE for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:12:01 +0200 Received: from azsmga002.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.35]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Aug 2011 13:07:13 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,271,1312182000"; d="scan'208";a="10300019" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.255.18.108]) by AZSMGA002.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Aug 2011 13:07:12 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Darren Hart Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:07:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-10-generic-pae; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: <201108191127.48228.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> <4E53FA98.1060909@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4E53FA98.1060909@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201108232107.11656.paul.eggleton@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 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:12:01 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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