I think this has come up before on this list, but: isn't having 2 sets of 
commands in the first place a design smell? If we need aliases because users 
aren't using the originals, then  shouldn't we fix the original commands?

Tim Penhey <[email protected]> writes:

> On 25/05/16 00:12, Marco Ceppi wrote:
>> Even if you don't expect people to run them, hidding them seems
>> awkward.
>> Better to simply educate with good help output about what the
>> command
>> does and when/why use the command.
>
> Was thinking, perhaps it would be better to have a feature flag to use
> the "hidden" commands instead of the ability to hide commands.
>
> If you set the feature flag, you get the additional commands, and they
> show up in help etc.  That way a way to get users to run them could be
> something like:
>
>   JUJU_FEATURE_FLAGS=dev-debug juju dump-model
>
> or something like that.
>
> Tim

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