Consider not using -f -y (nonquestioning force) by default

aarnt / octopkg

A Qt-based pkgng (BSD) front end

https://tintaescura.com/projects/octopkg

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Closed grahamperrin closed 2 years ago

grahamperrin commented 2 years ago

An example dialogue:

Can there be a preference to not force things by default?

In some cases, removals – for which there's no forewarning – might be troublesome.

https://github.com/aarnt/octopkg/issues/3#issuecomment-183935274 it's possible to cancel an in-progress transaction, but avoidance will be preferable.

Thanks

aarnt commented 2 years ago

Now, upstream no longer uses "pkg remove" with -f option.