The CLI tries to determine if an application already exists by doing self_verify, and skips erase if the result is negative. Problem is, a negative self_verify response only indicates that something is wrong with the existing application. It could be that is doesn't exist, but it could also be something else.
Since there is no way to determine if an application exists (short of a full readback, which is too time consuming), it is safer to always erase.
The CLI tries to determine if an application already exists by doing
self_verify, and skips erase if the result is negative. Problem is, a negativeself_verifyresponse only indicates that something is wrong with the existing application. It could be that is doesn't exist, but it could also be something else.Since there is no way to determine if an application exists (short of a full readback, which is too time consuming), it is safer to always erase.