> I'd like to commit just the first half of the patch, which introduces the -q 
> flag to reinplace, and release that with 2.0.1 (without the flag (or absence 
> of it) actually doing anything). Then in a later release, we'll add the 
> actual warning message when the flag is not used. The reason is that in some 
> cases the author of a reinplace expects it to not do anything, and this would 
> cause superfluous warnings -- most annoyingly right now, thousands of them 
> (one per file in the distfile) for each kde4 portgroup port, and similarly 
> for documentation files in the mysql5 port. If we commit the flag now without 
> it doing anything, then later when we make the flag do something, we can 
> simultaneously update those few designed-to-not-do-anything reinplaces to use 
> the flag so they don't spew warnings.

Good approach since we're itching to get 2.0.1 out.

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