On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 13:57:18 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 8/28/2011 11:33 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > Ignoring or removing the option makes the ports upgrade without user > > intervention. > > Neither of those is a valid option (pardon the pun). The primary goal > is to avoid breaking the user's system, not to make the upgrade > process go through without human intervention. Imagine a scenario > where the user has a critical dependency on cups being compiled with > gnutls. Not upgrading the currently installed (and working) version is > a totally valid outcome. Silently upgrading cups to a version without > gnutls makes the upgrade process "successful," but with a very poor > outcome for the user.
Bingo. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
