On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:04:41AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:

> Well, it all depends on what the definition of "dry-run" is.  My
> interpretation is that "-n" meant "would this install normally
> succeed when executed as specified?"

Fair enough.  I think of it as a way to ask "what is this thing going to
do?".  We could compromise and say that it should have a non-zero exit
code, but not print the same message (or do any license printing).

> Another thing to keep in mind is that we've talked about dry-run
> performing the download caching step and would the transfer of package
> data require acceptance of the license before install could proceed or
> would license acceptance be after the download phase?

No idea.  That sounds like an excellent question to spend a couple weeks
getting a useful answer out of a lawyer.  ;-)  My preference would be that
it should ask at install time, not download time.  Particularly since if
someone is obsessive enough to install a package by hand out of the
download cache, they can also download the package by hand.  Or hack the
commands to ignore the license.

Danek
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