[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #4629] (grass) v.db.droptable: it's interactive and doesn't work in tcltk GUI mode

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:49:26PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka via RT wrote:
> mneteler wrote (Tue, Jun 20 2006 11:30:36):
> 
> > The code contains:
> > 
> > # this may not work in GUI mode:
> > echo "Are you sure (y/n)? [n]"
> > read ans
> > 
> > which needs to be fixed (question is how,
> > add a -f force flag)?
> 
> (Markus has added the flag.)
> 
> Why the force-flag and the Y/N question at all? g.remove doesn't ask and
> that's just OK, why shouldn't v.db.droptable follow?

Nearly all commands *refuse* to overwrite (hence --o).
g.remove is an exception (maybe a bad one).

v.db.droptable follows the mainstream behaviour which I like
(better actively say that you want to delete something that
crying the rest of the week for a non-backup'ed (big) table). 

My 0.02 cent,

Markus