On 23/05/2008, at 2:34 AM, Xavier wrote:
I found an alternative getopt function which might solve our problems, but I am not sure we want to explicitly have all this complexity : http://www.math.ias.edu/doc/bash-3.0/functions/getoptx.bash
My second favorite way would be to kill all long options. The problem is that there are some long only option : --asroot Allow makepkg to run as root user --holdver Prevent automatic version bumping for development PKGBUILDs --source Do not build package; generate a source-only tarball --noconfirm Do not ask for confirmation when resolving dependencies --noprogressbar Do not show a progress bar when downloading files
So for each of these option, we can either : 1) find a decent short option to rename it 2) kill it totally 3) find a replacement, for example a setting in makepkg.conf
What do you think?
--noprogressbar could probably go into makepkg.conf, but I think the rest needs to stay. -H could be used for --holdver, -n or -N for -- noconfirm (the other could be used for --noprogressbar). -S is deprecated so it could be for --source instead. I'm not sure about -- asroot. There's also --forcever. -- Sebastian Nowicki