Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir

[marduk]

I didn't want to have to respond to this, but...

Don't change rm's default behavior.  There is nothing wrong with rm.
There are many people who have for years (decades?) used rm and expect
it to work a certain way, i.e. the Unix way, which is to (wrongly?)
assume the user knows what she is doing and to quietly exit
successfully.  If you must have new behavior, have a new command, say
gentoorm. Or if you must mess with rm, make sure by default it uses
traditional Unix behavior unless you pass it
--some-nonstandard-option-that-otherwise-breaks-rm.  But please don't
change the way most people expect rm to work.

--m


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