bug#72686: Impossible to remove all offload machines

[Ian Eure]

Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>
> Hello,
>
> Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:
>
> > Disregard this, I continued thinking after sending the email 
> > (as one does) and
> > realized that any managed file will be a link into the store -- 
> > so if the system
> > is reconfigured with no build-machines or channels *and* the 
> > corresponding file
> > is a store link, it should be removed; otherwise, it should 
> > remain untouched. I
> > can work with this.
>
> Will this correctly handle cases where user is managing the file 
> using
> for example extra-special-file?

No, it wouldn’t.


> I wonder whether fat-warning approach would not be better.

I think I agree.

 — Ian