>>>>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2017, William L Thomson wrote: > Along the lines of failures. What if a system has rm aliased to > prompt before removal? In that case rm -r would fail, but rm -fr > would not. That would cause failures for the user and not the > developer. Assuming rm does not disable prompt for a non-interactive > shell.
The very first thing ebuild.sh does is this: # Prevent aliases from causing portage to act inappropriately. # Make sure it's before everything so we don't mess aliases that follow. unalias -a Now of course a user could have aliased both rm and unalias ... :) Ulrich
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