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Date:      Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:33:37 -0400
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
To:        remko@elvandar.org
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add main.c pkg_add.1  src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create main.c pkg_create.1  src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete main.c pkg_delete.1  src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info main.c pkg_info.1 ...
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On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:45 +0200, Remko Lodder wrote:
> On Tue, June 3, 2008 5:18 pm, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> wrot=
e:
> >> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:58 -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >>> I am curious what is our policy on using long options in the base
> >>> system
> >>> (if any)? I believe that pkg_install is the first non-contributed bas=
e
> >>> system utility to actually widely use it. For some reason I've got
> >>> impression that use of getopt_long is considered "the Linux/GNU way",
> >>> this API provided for compatibility purposes and its use in base syst=
em
> >>> is discouraged. Quick grep through /use/src seemingly supports that.
> >>>
> >>> Can someone confirm/reject?
> >>
> >> I am not sure about policy, however I do appreciate the long options
> >> sometimes. Primarily, I think they are useful (in a self-documenting
> >> way) for use in shell scripts. I tend to prefer the single-char option=
s
> >> when I am doing the administration myself.
> >
> > I'm not aware of such policy.
> >
> > I think they're useful because as far as pkg_install is concerned, we
> > are using single-char options that are hard to match to the action
> > it's doing. Here are a couple examples:
> >
> > - pkg_create -h doesn't call usage() because it's already taken.
> > - it's easy to confuse pkg_info -o and pkg_info -O.
> >
> > I'll back it out if general consensus is that long options should be
> > avoided.
> >
> > --
> > Florent Thoumie
> > flz@FreeBSD.org
> > FreeBSD Committer
> >
>=20
> I like the change (long opts).
>=20
> Cheers,
> REmko
>=20

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