On Mar 21, 2017, at 07:07, Craig Treleaven wrote: > > 1) What happens if my port uses ‘reinplace -q …’ but the user hasn’t updated > to MacPorts 2.4.1? Does the port fail or is the -q flag ignored?
With 2.4.0 it will be ignored. With earlier, an error will occur, so users should upgrade. > 2) My MythTV ports have scores of Perl and Python scripts where I need to > reinplace the shebang lines. That works but the user now gets over 100 > reinplace warnings. As the port maintainer, I may sometimes want to see > those warnings to assure myself that they remain harmless. Would it be > possible to have the ‘port -d ‘ flag override the ‘-q’ flag so that I can see > the warnings when needed? Of course it would be possible to do that, but I think that will lead to some ports getting thousands of lines of reinplace warnings in their logs which I'd like to avoid.
