"`port -pf upgrade outdated` is incredibly unsafe" ??

[Jeremy Lavergne]

I'm confused about the purpose of the thread.

The documentation indicates why what you're doing is a bad thing. You should just run random commands without knowing what they do.

To quote IRC:
"things break so often that i decided that the best course of action was to ignore the breakage"


It sounds like you don't actually want help.


On May 28, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
> End users probably don't read the man pages to even know these flags exist.
> 
> That's what I already hinted at in my last mail.
>  
> We're left wondering how and why you're even using them.
> 
>      -p       Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple ports and com-
>               mands.
> 
>      -f       force mode (ignore state file)
> 
> Do you run force mode on all your system commands
> 
> Nope, I don't.
>  
> and never check the result before the next one?
> 
> I gave up to do this for MacPorts upgrades, because it is so time consuming.
> 
> I do however always check *afterwards* what problems did occur.
>  
> That's an analogy here.
> 
> That sentence I do not understand.
>  
> For what purpose are you using these flags? 
> 
> I outlined that already in my last mail.   :-)