Re: design question, why not always use 'cp --remove-destination'?

[Jim Meyering]

Frederik Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
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> The question is, is there a reason why users wouldn't always want a
> "copyFile" function to remove the destination first?

Sometimes, cp --remove-dest will fail, because the destination
cannot be removed.  Yet cp without that option would be able to
update the file, because it's writable.