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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:16:06 -0700
From: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Cc: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>, alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH] Add "-s" short option for "--simulate"
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:10:30AM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 11:52:12 +0300
> Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 09:26:03 +0200
> > Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:13:24 -0700
> > > Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 08:55:56AM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:39:51 -0700
> > > > > Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Typing the long option gets old.
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >  src/apk.c | 10 +++++-----
> > > > > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Have you checked that it does not break apk info -s <package>?
> > > > > (for displaying size usage)
> > > > 
> > > > I had not.
> > > > And it does break it.
> > > > 
> > > > My apologies.
> > > 
> > > I must admit that I like the idea though.
> > > 
> > > I dont think 'apk info -s --simulate' makes much sense.
> > > 
> > > Timo, are there some way to fix this, that is, disable or override
> > > global options for some applets.
> > > 
> > > I am not sure we want do that though...
> > 
> > Currently no, could probably be done with little changes. Though, I'd
> > prefer not to do it.
> 
> Ok. Lets leave it.
> 
> > Though having '-s' short for --simulate sounds like a good idea. I have
> > missed that, and I believe apt-get does that too.
> > 
> > Perhaps we should rename info -s to something else?
> 
> info -S?
> 
> But I don't like breaking compatibility. It always causes unexpected
> breakages which requires nasty fixes. 

The obvious approach is to instead alias --simulate to -S; as far as I can tell,
there are no collisions.
I would find that satisfactory.

Anything I'm missing?

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham


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