On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:13:29 +0100 Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote: > Hello Neil, > > Am 2008-02-04 20:42:52, schrieb Neil Williams: > > Note that the short version of --variant is V - capital V (lower case v > > is for --version). My mistake, lower case v is for --verbose. --version has no short alternative. > This could be very confusing since many packages I use have "--version" > and "-V" (capital "V") for the version while "-v" (lower case "v") is > used for verbose. So -v is for --verbose, --version is alone -V for --variant I'm not aware of many packages that use -V for --version - certainly none of the emdebian-tools scripts have a short version of --version (mainly because --version is little different to --help which has the short versions of -? or -h). > So better to use "-v" if 'emsource' does not use the "verbose" mode. With the correction, is it worth supporting a short option for --version at all? I can't see that it is going to be as well used as --variant and IMHO does not justify a short option. The other use of --variant is for emsandbox which (currently) does not support --verbose although it could pass that to debootstrap. It would be good to have a consistent UI so if there are comments or suggestions for a convention that can be applied against *all* scripts in emdebian-tools, I'll consider it. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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