Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/tools

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:23:12AM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:09:20 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >Yes, "unlink of directories" is the silly historical reason why this
> >command exists at all. No system has allowed that for a *very* long
> >time, because it is completely broken. I have no idea what ambigious
> >behavior you mean with symbolic links and the lack of proper argument
> >handling is another bug in unlink(8). So again, where is it used?
> 
> I see that you don't know about "rm" and "unlink",
> and unlink(8) is on NetBSD, unlink(1) for various other platforms.

?! You don't make sense.

> Again, so what? I know you dislike legacy codes and tools, so what?
> Do you want to say "hey, you must not use unlink(1) in these days!"
> to authors of such scripts?
> "where is it used?"... don't you have the way to search it?
> For example,
>   https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster/blob/master/portmaster
> Let's go to FreeBSD project! feedback and comments about the script
> are unwanted for me, let's say to FreeBSD people!

Last that I checked, portmaster is not in pkgsrc. You still haven't
given a single example of why "unlink" must exist as tool in pkgsrc. Is
that so difficult if it is needed?

Joerg