Brock Pytlik wrote:
> >While I'm open to -p by default, it's certainly less useful to me, and
> >I'm curious to see some actual reasons why people would prefer it, other
> >than unsupported statements from you and Shawn expressing your belief
> >that this is what people expect and/or would want. I know collecting
> >data on this is hard; I'd be happy even with some anecdotal evidence
> >from people not directly on the pkg(5) team.
>
> I agree, that's why I threw out the idea of posing the question on
> discussion lists/starting a poll somewhere. By the same token, I'd
> like to see more than one person stating they'd like to keep -a as
> the default.
>
> I'm also fine with changing the bug synopsis to be "-p doesn't handle
> multi-term queries properly" and leave the default where it is.
That would be my preference, since I prefer the action-oriented output (but
would like -p to DTRT). But I'm happy if you want to poll some of the
lists and get a rough consensus that folks prefer -p by default.
BTW, I didn't check to see if you can override the term-by-term
transformation. That is, if the default is the equivalent of
<smf> </lib/svc/method>
then is there some way of actually specifying
<smf /lib/svc/method>
? Is
<<smf> </lib/svc/method>>
equivalent to the latter?
Oh, and you're going to need a man-page update for this change.
Thanks,
Danek
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