On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:39:22PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > following the discussion about pkg_delete -c removing any data > associated with the use of a specific port, I propose the following for > discussion: > > add a new flag, -D, to remove any data that was created by using a > certain port. like whole database clusters. Could be indicated in a > PLIST like > > @rmdata rm -r /var/the_data_of_the_port > > I am strongly against pkg_delete -c to delete any user data. >
Iiick. Using rm -r to kill some data sounds very evil to me as it may delete way more then the user wanted. Why not just rmdir the directory and print a message when it fails? Something similar seems to be already done by pkg_delete if a file checksum changed. -- :wq Claudio
