I'm confused about the purpose of the thread. The documentation indicates why what you're doing is a bad thing. You should just run random commands without knowing what they do.
To quote IRC: "things break so often that i decided that the best course of action was to ignore the breakage" It sounds like you don't actually want help. On May 28, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]> > wrote: > End users probably don't read the man pages to even know these flags exist. > > That's what I already hinted at in my last mail. > > We're left wondering how and why you're even using them. > > -p Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple > ports and com- > mands. > > -f force mode (ignore state file) > > Do you run force mode on all your system commands > > Nope, I don't. > > and never check the result before the next one? > > I gave up to do this for MacPorts upgrades, because it is so time consuming. > > I do however always check *afterwards* what problems did occur. > > That's an analogy here. > > That sentence I do not understand. > > For what purpose are you using these flags? > > I outlined that already in my last mail. :-) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
