reclaim removed my ports without asking

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I just ran sudo port reclaim successfully for the first time on my main system. (The last time I tried to run it, it encountered an error.)

It immediately uninstalled 941 ports, which surprised me. I don't understand why the ports were immediately removed, without asking me, since man port-reclaim states "No files are removed initially, until the user selects them from the provided list."

[kencu (Ken)]

Do you have

# Whether the user interface should ask interactive questions
#ui_interactive         yes

set to "no" ?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Cf. #53857

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to kencu:

Do you have

# Whether the user interface should ask interactive questions
#ui_interactive         yes

set to "no" ?

Yes. I do not want to constantly be asked whether I would like to install dependencies. I always want to install dependencies. I want installing ports to work the way it did before the interactive UI feature was added.

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Was there any suggestions on how to fix this or is this just the way it is now (ui_interactive applies to all questions)?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm not aware of any work on improving this. I still use ui_interactive no, and I don't use reclaim.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to ryandesign:

Yes. I do not want to constantly be asked whether I would like to install dependencies. I always want to install dependencies. I want installing ports to work the way it did before the interactive UI feature was added.

Maybe some additional granularity in the controls over interactivity would be helpful? See ticket #68953 for a related idea I had