On Feb 7, 2010, at 20:49, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2010-02-07 19:18 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:10, Joshua Root wrote: >> >>> There's also the example given in the man page: >>> >>> port -u uninstall >> >> I've suggested once before that we remove the "-u" option for >> uninstall, since it is so disastrously dissimilar to the "-u" option >> for upgrade, and identical to "sudo port uninstall inactive", which >> we should recommend users use instead since it's much clearer what >> will happen. What do you think? > > I mainly agree. But I would also propose to move -u to the local flags > and make it upgrade specific only with a new name. It would no longer be > a global flag as it is only used by one action. > > As reminder, local options are those listed after the name of the action > with two dashes, global options are listed between 'port' and the name > of the action being a single character starting with a single dash. > > port [global options] <action> [local options] <portspec> ...
Makes sense to me that it should be a local option for the upgrade command. I just hate how this will make it longer to type, and break muscle memory for existing MacPorts users. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
