> On Mar 26, 2019, at 11:13 AM, Andy Herrick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> --overwrite was removed because our internal reviewers thought that was
> inconsistent with other tools.
>
> the problem was that the option required us to fully remove the directory
> tree <output>/<name>[.app], without regard to what is in it.
>
> other tools like jlink require a non-existent output path, and developer can
> easily "rm -rf" the directory before running jpackage.
>
> /Andy
>
>
Yeah ok, I would say having it a CLI option puts the risk on the user. But as
you say an easy work around. You do have to sudo for some of the embedded jdk
files.
Thanks
