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Date:      Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:57:47 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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 Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:42:55PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:29 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>>
>>> I would think they all are!
>>> 
>> 
>> Where do we stop?  Should we add long options to all
>> /usr/bin utilities?  Why stop at /usr/bin, let's add
>> long options to /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin, /rescue, etc.
>> 
> 
> I'm sure if someone has some "add long options to /bin/cp, etc..."
> patches, we can surely discuss them on this list as adults and respect
> the decision to add new features without deprecating any existing
> features, even if we won't be making use of those new features.

Would you commit the changes before or after the discussion?

-- 
Steve



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