On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a request for comments on FS#18709. It requests adding a > -q/--question option similar to make which does nothing but returns 0 if all > packages are already built and 1 if not. It might be useful in scripts. > > Any opinions on this? I see no reason why not. The name is a bit weird but > given that is what make uses, I see no reason not to be consistent. > > There is a patch (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18709?getfile=5006) which > is fairly minor, but needs reviewing and documentation.
Seems reasonable; however can we just have it be --question and not -q? We use -q in every other tool to indicate quietness and I'd rather leave that option open here. -Dan
