Re: Where the hell are my launchers?

[Fredrik Hedberg <fredrik hedberg avafan com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 21:23 -0700, Todd Berman wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 19:25 -0400, Fredrik Hedberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> >                 beagle-build-index /windows/c /windows/d /var/cache/beagle/indexes/windows
> > 
> >         * If it finds a directory given by the path specified by the
> >         last argument. It will try to use that index and add data to it.
> >         If it doesn't find this directory suitable for some reason, it
> >         will purge it (delete) and create a new index. THIS HAS THE
> >         POTENTIAL TO ERASE ALL YOUR DATA IF PASSED THE WRONG ARGUMENT,
> >         so use it wisely.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why not go with a --cache-dir=/var/cache/....
> and/or --cache-dir /var/cache/.... type syntax instead of just assuming
> the last one is the cache dir? Seems like the latter is asking for angry
> users, no matter how loud and scary the warnings are.

Yeah, the semantics will definitely change into something saner for the
next release. Also, I've moved it into $prefix/sbin to make it clearer
that this is not intended to be invoked by users.

/F