On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:37:15PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > I think I finally understand what you were saying earlier. That's an > incredibly subtle difference from a user perspective. > > In other words: > > ./depot.py --proxy-base= --mirror > > and: > > ./depot.py --proxy-base --mirror > > > ...are probably indistinguishable to most users visually, but obviously are > very different functionally as you've pointed out.
The argument comes from the days when you didn't have long options, and so the form with the equals didn't exist, and it was all a bit more obvious. But it still holds. Sorry I didn't do a better job explaining it. > I've updated the man page though. Cool, thanks. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
