[Yum-devel] "doastold" option, or, putting code where my mouth is

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Mar 9 14:35:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:37:27AM -0500, Sean Dilda wrote:
> >Other than apt can you think of any program that implements a "confirm
> >occasionally" interface?
> openssh with host key checking, specifically the StrictHostKeyChecking 
> option which has three levels for the prompting.

Or "cp -i". Or the GUI examples I mentioned in the bug -- saving a file over
another one, trashing an item permanently. This is actually very common
behavior -- because, well, it's the right behavior. :)

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