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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Smith)
Thu Nov 7 03:08:38 1996
Date: 7 Nov 1996 08:59:51 -0000
From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <199611062220.RAA25939@marvin.redhat.com> (message from Donnie
Barnes on Wed, 06 Nov 1996 17:20:01 -0500)
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Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com> wrote:
> RPM will never query the user. I hasten to say "never", but that is
> a design decision that has been made. RPM should never be interactive.
Good decision. I need to be able to use it in scripts. (No doubt that is
one of the reasons why you all made that decision).
I would suggest that if it ever is decided to add any interactive features
to RPM, they should *never* be used unless an explicit command line argument
is given, such as "--interactive" (or an abbreviation, as that's rather long
to be typing very often).
Cheers,
Eric
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