On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:41:18 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 05:46:40PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > On 07/28/14 20:28, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I was forced to switch to pkgng on a 9.2 box and I'm now noticing > > > a strange behaviour. > > > > > > Before, "pkg_deinstall -R foo" would deinstall foo and all ports > > > on which foo depended, except those who were needed by other > > > ports. > > > > > > Now, "pkg_deinstall -R foo" will deinstall foo, all ports on > > > which foo depends and all ports depending on the ports on which > > > foo depends. > > > > > > E.g. > > > Port A depends on B > > > Port B depends on C > > > Port D depends on C > > > > > > With the old behaviour, "pkg_deinstall -R A" would deinstall A > > > and B (but not C). > > > Now it will deinstall A, B, C and D. > > > > After some investigation, this broke after the upgrade to pkg 1.3, > > in which *by default* "pkg delete" seems to be the same as "pkg > > delete -R". > > > > From what I can tell, there is no flags to "pkg delete" which > > makes it act as it used to and as portupgrade expects, so I cannot > > easily fix it. > > > pkg delete -f is not recursive This is true, but is very hard to guess based on the pkg-delete(8) man page. My first reading of the options led me to believe that -f was an alias for -y and that it would forcefully and recursively delete without asking. This could certainly be better worded in the man page. -f should explicitly state that it is non-recursive (now that -R is implicit and there is no other option to turn it off) and that a confirmation is still required, either interactively or through the -y option. It was with trepidation that I first used the -f option. Also, since the -R option now does nothing, it should either be removed or complemented with an -r option (for non-recursive) BTW, pkg info use -d for showing dependencies instead of -R (used by pkg_info), so the options are different from pkg_tools. Also the options are not consistently named across the pkg commands. General gripe about pkg(8): The command structure and options are very similar to the previous pkg_tools but with enough changes in options and behaviour that it trips up an unwary user. I feel this is a POLA violation. It is almost like it is baiting the user into making a mistake. Is is similar enough to the old tools that the user think it is sufficient to just replace the hyphen with a space (as in pkg-delete and pkg delete) but sometimes with subtle changes in options or behaviour, most of them with no clear rationale for the change. I suppose that the superficial likeness was to make it more familiar for existing users of pkg_tools, but since it is not 100% compatible (would be better if it was) it would perhaps have been better to make a clean break to remove preconceptions about operations. Thanks for reading. Best regards, Gyrd ^_^ > > regards, > Bapt _______________________________________________ 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"
