On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:16:51AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2024/08/15 18:33, Marc Espie wrote: > > Enter @extraglob > > ---------------- > > > > basically: stuff like @extraglob /var/tomcat/conf/ > > will remove the tomcat dir with everything inside it > > > > or stuff like > > @extraglob /var/db/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ > > It would be really nice to have a way to do this / @extra without > triggering "you should also remove X" during (some?) package updates. > > I stopped using @extra and friends in most of my ports becausesometimes > people (understandably) believe that they should follow those messages > and end up removing important files.
Easy to add keywords, actually. I got "always" to have extra and extraglob actually remove the files/directories in every case. Just as easily, I can add a "silent" keyword that would suppress the logged message ;)
