[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Add IgnoreGroup and --ignoregroup option.

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 17:03:01 EST 2007


On Nov 12, 2007 3:51 PM, Nathan Jones <nathanj at insightbb.com> wrote:
> I forgot to add --ignoregroup to the --help message. The problem now is
> that the command name is too long:
>
>   -y, --refresh        download fresh package databases from the server
>       --ignore <pkg>   ignore a package upgrade (can be used more than once)
>       --ignoregroup <grp> ignore a group upgrade (can be used more than once)
>       --config <path>  set an alternate configuration file
>       --logfile <path> set an alternate log file
>
> Shortening to --ignoregrp is still one letter too large. Maybe
> --ignoregp? The current longest line is --print-uris which is 79
> columns, so it is possible to add one more space between the command and
> description.
>
> Any ideas?

Break it up? Something like....

>   -y, --refresh        download fresh package databases from the server
>       --ignore <pkg>   ignore a package upgrade (can be used more than once)
>       --ignoregroup <grp>
>                                ignore a group upgrade (can be used more than once)
>       --config <path>  set an alternate configuration file
>       --logfile <path> set an alternate log file

/me shrugs




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