Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:13:12AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > 2) a command that with a flag can be told not to spew any output under
> > > any circumstances (a la grep -qs)
> >
> > Which seems marginally better here, though I am still redirecting stderr
> > and stdout to /dev/null just in case.
>
> We can send a wishlist bug to debianutils to add a flag to which in order to
> be quiet: -q|--quiet?
So, how do we then look for a command '-q'?
which doesn't currently have --. In fact, which does no parsing of it's
command line at all.
Adding a -q will break backwards compatibility.
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