On 4/26/10, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think?

i don't mind very much, but imho...

> OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like
> this that require root access to actually change things as a regular
> user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the
> command as root.

...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. what if i, as a regular
user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? that wouldn't be
"painless" :)
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avi...@freebsd.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla
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