[pacman-dev] pacman -R default answer

[Diogo Sousa]

On 02/13/2012 01:59 AM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 01:55:03AM +0000, Diogo Sousa wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> when removing packages the default answer to "Do you want to remove
>> these packages?" is Yes. Shouldn't we be conservative and provide "no"
>> as the default?
>>
>> Diogo Sousa
>>
> 
> Presumably the user intends to do what they just typed out onto the
> command line.
> 
> d
> 

Yes, but sometimes the consequences of such intention is not clear to
the user, like in case of a pacman -Rc, where you can easily
unintentionally remove other packages.

Diogo Sousa

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