[OE-core] [PATCH] wipe-sysroot: explain what is being deleted and require confirmation

[Burton, Ross]

On 1 November 2013 21:04, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 19:47 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
>> Instead of rushing into deleting entire directory trees without any warning,
>> print the directories and files that will be deleted and require confirmation
>> from the user (via --force) that they want files to be deleted.
>
> "--force" seems like a bit of an odd name for an argument that you have
> to supply in order for the script to do anything useful.  Why would the
> user be running a script named "wipe-sysroot" if they didn't want the
> sysroot to be deleted?

I'm open to alternative wording but the essence is "don't delete stuff
if the user does something like wipe-sysroot --help".

Ross