Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Making doins die with FEATURES=stricter if the destination file exists
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:53:21
Message-Id: 200701131752.23647.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Making doins die with FEATURES=stricter if the destination file exists by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:58, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Now doins silently overwrites files. Would probably be useful to make it
3 > at least echo a message about this and maybe die with FEATURES=stricter.
4 > What do you think?
5
6 i'm not sure i'd like either of these ... after all, we dont have `cp`
7 complain when it overwrites a file ...
8 -mike