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| author | Max Howell | 2012-03-07 11:16:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Max Howell | 2012-03-07 12:33:47 +0000 |
| commit | 76aa0a62f3ef3bbb31c2688037e3932b80aff7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | ac2283a054fc5efc6eb2fb883432039a80fee9ad /Library/Homebrew/cmd/help.rb | |
| parent | 15a70c36d0267af15f1c28c45a8a1bcd0c7b783f (diff) | |
| download | brew-76aa0a62f3ef3bbb31c2688037e3932b80aff7f9.tar.bz2 | |
Stop supporting `brew install --force'
Rationale: it breaks stuff. You should not be able to install over something already installed *and* linked. brew now prompts you to unlink the existing linked keg first.
I came to fix this because I discovered that `brew install foo` works without --force provided foo's formula version is different to that which is installed and linked. I'm not sure if this was intentionally broken, but it led to at least two tickets I found where people were getting crazy issues trying to install over the top of already installed previous versions.
So I also fixed a whole category of other issues, mostly by moving error handling into FormulaInstaller. Now error's can be caught in Homebrew.install and handled on a formula-by-formula basis. I will next port this behaviour to upgrade.
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