On 6/8/07, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > AFAICS there's no way to have directory names with spaces in the > > mentioned paths. > > > > Shall we define one? > > I'm generally in favour. > > If we make a change here I'd prefer to make one we can live with for > years than a change that seems like a good compromise but doesn't > really solve the problem. If we need an incompatible change, we > should be brave enough to make it, but let's just do it once :) > > One possibility might be to be able to say --prunepath=A and > --prunepath=B in order to have paths A and B both pruned. (Note this > option name is differene to --prunepaths). > > But feel free to think up a well-engineered alternative to what we > have now. If we engineer a good updatedb programinterface, we can > always leave the option of making a separate compatibility shim for > people not yet willing to change their command lines.
Pinging bug-findutils members for any comments.... James
