On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote:
The arguments were :
1) It represents a loss in the language: the new behaviour was trivial
to obtain under the old semantics by 'fink build foo; fink
reinstall foo',
while I see no way to reimplement the old semantics currently...
2) Stability of the language :
Users might have scripts that depend on the old behaviour..
(I no longer have _ but I did). In that sense one might wish to argue
that if a new meaning is given, it depends on some flag (eg,
reinstall -b ,
"b" for build), and that original meanings be preserved if possible...
(Example of such use :
Take a script by which a user is doing his own installs (whether it be
in order to save logs, or in order to always build things in
dependency order,
or to enforce own preferences like eg to install 'all possible
splitoffs
that have been built', or ..).
For the script to be effective even for rebuilds, it has to start with
fink rebuild foo; next it has then to issue a reinstall command
(possibly
for the whole foo-family), and it is important that this does not
re-attempt
a build that has just failed...
)
A prompt is a pain when writing scripts: one would have to try
piping an
'echo no' to the command (there is no fink -n reinstall ...).
So I would suggest either
1) use 'fink reinstall -b' for the new semantics and keep the old
meaning
of fink reinstall.
2) or, if stability of the language is deemed unimportant, preserve
the
old semantics under some additional flag to reinstall.
Here's another possibility: this issue arose in situations in which
"fink reinstall" fails because it doesn't find a .deb. So how about
this:
"fink reinstall" works as before unless it doesn't find a .deb .
If it doesn't find one, it prompts the user with a message about this
and asks if the user would like to build the package. Perhaps even
this latter behavior could be overridden with a flag.
-- Dave
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