"Ted Unangst" <[email protected]> writes: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> As there is no fully satisfactory option, i propose the patch below. >> It add the "-W portable" command line option, which is a variant of >> "-W style" hiding messages that only apply to base system manuals. > > I'm not fond of the name portable. To me, this suggests it will check for > things which impede portability, but that's not really what it does. It may > have that effect in some cases, but more as an incidental effect. > > Instead, I suggest shifting the names by one. Leave -W style as the portable > option, but introduce -W openbsd which performs the additional checks. Or > better, name it -W system, so as to be useful on netbsd, etc.
That sounds reasonable too... > I think this matches the actual hierarchy in practice. There's errors and > warnings at the top. Then there's general style warnings. Then below that > there's the local system specific style guidelines. It's a matter of > perspective, but the portable warnings aren't subset of style, rather the > system warnings are a superset of style. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
