Identifying more situations for interactivity

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon May 19 13:10:01 PDT 2014


On 2014-5-19 22:32 , Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Please suggest more such cases.
> 
> I think you forgot the use case I suggested in the meeting last week:
> 
> $> port uninstall foobar
> "foobar" isn't indisputable. Which of the following ports do you want to uninstall?
>   (1) foobar @0.0.1 +xzy
>   (2) foobar @0.0.2 +xzy
>   (3) foobar @0.0.3
>  Type a number to select a port to uninstall or press enter to uninstall the ports currently selected: 1
>  Selecting foobar @0.0.1 +xzy.
>  *(1) foobar @0.0.1 +xzy
>   (2) foobar @0.0.2 +xzy
>   (3) foobar @0.0.3
>  Type a number to select a port to uninstall or press enter to uninstall the ports currently selected: 3
>  Selecting foobar @0.0.3.
>  *(1) foobar @0.0.1 +xzy
>   (2) foobar @0.0.2 +xzy
>  *(3) foobar @0.0.3
>  Type a number to select a port to uninstall or press enter to uninstall the ports currently selected:
> ---> Uninstalling foobar @0.0.1 +xzy
> ---> Uninstalling foobar @0.0.3
> $>

I don't think "indisputable" is what you mean here. I would instead say:
"foobar" is ambiguous

- Josh


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