[pacman-dev] Fix command line argument parsing in makepkg

[Allan McRae]

Mark Constable wrote:
> On 2008-05-28, Xavier wrote:
>   
>>> --source            = -S
>>> --noconfirm        =  -n
>>> --noprogressbar = -N
>>> --holdver            = -H
>>> --forcever           = ?
>>> --asroot             = ?
>>>       
>
> Someone else suggested -0 and -F. The only extra I would
> suggest is an additional check for "--help" so for those
> occasions when longopts do get used, for assistance, that
> both -h and --help shows the new shortopts usage list.
>   

I just did a grep though my history and I tend to always use long 
options for --help and --version.  So I am not so sure about a short 
option only makepkg.  I'd get used to it, but I expect all software to 
have those long options.  Also, I would find it a bit weird passing only 
short options for --noprogressbar and --noconfirm which do not have 
short options in pacman which is their eventual target.

I went back through the thread and looked at the reason for switching to 
short options only and it seems the cleanest solution to the problem.  
However, I just am not a fan of the idea.  I really need to think on 
this some more but I'd be in favour of a dirtier solution (perhaps the 
addition of a specific option parser function) in order to keep them.  
As already discovered, you can only go so far before the one letter 
abbreviations become a bit obscure.

Allan