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devin.austin at gmail

Jul 28, 2009, 1:27 AM

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RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps

okay, I got this right this time.

What are everyone's thoughts on including a warning and forced confirmation
when a user goes to "make install" an application, be it downloaded from
cpan or elsewhere?

Something like, "you are running make install, are you REALLY sure you want
to install this application system wide? If you aren't sure, then CTRL +
C.", or, make reallywantoinstall, etc.

Thoughts?

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ben-catalyst at vinnerd

Jul 28, 2009, 1:45 AM

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Re: RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps [In reply to]

On 28/07/2009 09:27, Devin Austin wrote:
> okay, I got this right this time.
>
> What are everyone's thoughts on including a warning and forced
> confirmation when a user goes to "make install" an application, be it
> downloaded from cpan or elsewhere?
>
> Something like, "you are running make install, are you REALLY sure you
> want to install this application system wide? If you aren't sure,
> then CTRL + C.", or, make reallywantoinstall, etc.
>
> Thoughts?
Can we have a reallyreallywanttoinstallplease ?

Ben

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devin.austin at gmail

Jul 28, 2009, 1:52 AM

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Re: RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps [In reply to]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Ben Vinnerd <ben-catalyst [at] vinnerd>wrote:

> On 28/07/2009 09:27, Devin Austin wrote:
>
>> okay, I got this right this time.
>>
>> What are everyone's thoughts on including a warning and forced
>> confirmation when a user goes to "make install" an application, be it
>> downloaded from cpan or elsewhere?
>>
>> Something like, "you are running make install, are you REALLY sure you
>> want to install this application system wide? If you aren't sure, then CTRL
>> + C.", or, make reallywantoinstall, etc.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
> Can we have a reallyreallywanttoinstallplease ?
>
> Ben
>
>
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I also thought --yarly (thanks rafl), --yesinstalldammit,
--plztobeintallingz were excellent choices.
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ash_cpan at firemirror

Jul 28, 2009, 1:55 AM

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Re: RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps [In reply to]

On 28 Jul 2009, at 09:27, Devin Austin wrote:

> okay, I got this right this time.
>
> What are everyone's thoughts on including a warning and forced
> confirmation when a user goes to "make install" an application, be
> it downloaded from cpan or elsewhere?
>
> Something like, "you are running make install, are you REALLY sure
> you want to install this application system wide? If you aren't
> sure, then CTRL + C.", or, make reallywantoinstall, etc.
>
> Thoughts?

If the module is on CPAN, then this option would be *really* annoying
- if some one has gone to the trouble of cpanning the module and you
did 'cpan Mojomojo' i think the intention is pretty clear?

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ben-catalyst at vinnerd

Jul 28, 2009, 2:00 AM

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Re: RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps [In reply to]

On 28/07/2009 09:52, Devin Austin wrote:
> I also thought --yarly (thanks rafl), --yesinstalldammit,
> --plztobeintallingz were excellent choices.

He he :)

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jon at jrock

Jul 30, 2009, 1:59 AM

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Re: RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps [In reply to]

> Can we have a reallyreallywanttoinstallplease ?

> I also thought --yarly (thanks rafl), --yesinstalldammit, --plztobeintallingz were
> excellent choices.

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joel at fysh

Jul 30, 2009, 5:38 AM

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Re: RFC: Makefile warning in catalyst apps [In reply to]

On 28 Jul 2009, at 09:27, Devin Austin wrote:

> okay, I got this right this time.
>
> What are everyone's thoughts on including a warning and forced
> confirmation when a user goes to "make install" an application, be
> it downloaded from cpan or elsewhere?
>
> Something like, "you are running make install, are you REALLY sure
> you want to install this application system wide? If you aren't
> sure, then CTRL + C.", or, make reallywantoinstall, etc.

That seems to make unwarranted assumptions about the scope of the
installation.

Why are you against installing Cat apps in the first place? It's my
usual approach. Then I just deploy the local-lib tree containing lib/
and bin/ and it Just Works.

/joel

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