[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/2] image.bbclass, kernel.bbclass: create warning file about deleting deploydir files

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 20:08:08 you wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 03:27 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > I guess it would, but I'm not sure we really want to be encouraging users
> > to use -f.
> 
> I don't see it as having the same negative conotation as the force
> options to things like rpm and dpkg. Here it just means "I really want
> to run this specific task again, even if you already ran it, likely
> because I know I did something to undo what you just did." :-)

My concern is that not all tasks are repeatable; people could run into all 
sorts of trouble using this option under the wrong circumstances and it might 
be difficult to debug after the fact.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre