On Wed 13 Feb 2008 at 10:31AM, John Beck wrote:
> JL> Naively I expect 'pkg list' to list packages, 'pkg info' to give
> JL> information on packages, and 'pkg status' to give status on packages.
>
> Danek> The design center is that each of these verbs operates on a package
> Danek> argument, but performs the same action on all packages if no argument
> Danek> is given.
>
> Danek> Thus "pkg list" lists a package. What does that mean? It lists
> Danek> the contents of the package (and the contents of all packages if no
> Danek> packages are specified)...
>
> Although I follow the theory of your design center, in practice, any command
> which does the equivalent of 'find /' is not user-friendly. Also, by way of
> contract, things like `zfs list`, `zpool list`, `zoneadm list` merely list
> the items in a set, whereas (at least for zoneadm) `info` is used to go into
> more detail about that item in the set.
I think I agree with John in this regard-- your argument is sound, but
user expectation and existing practice don't seem to match it... hmm.
-dp
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