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 ...

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:58:03PM -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 base 
> > system utility to actually widely use it.
> 
> Consider what happens when you want to split -f into different options
> that are more selective. Long options are more intuitive than random
> letters for that purpose.
> 

Won't one simply use optarg?  In fact, getopt(3) shows an
optarg example using -f.

I admit that I had the same thoughts as Maxim.  Why is a 
FreeBSD utility using long options?

-- 
Steve