[pacman-dev] [PATCH] contrib/paclist: Add "--help" command line parameter

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Lukas Fleischer
<archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:10:14AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Lukas Fleischer
>> <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
>> > Be consistent with all other contrib scripts and support the "--help"
>> > command line switch. Fixes FS#27258.
>> Where are we on consistency here with what we expect out of scripts in
>> scripts/? All of these support -h/--help/-V/--version; is it logical
>> to require the same for scripts in contrib?
>
> You surely know... :) I only saw that bug report and found it weird that
> paclist displays a usage message if we pass no parameters but does
> nothing when it is invoked with "-h" (as opposed to all other contrib
> scripts).

Well my gut tells me "yes, we should do this". Take a look at
scripts/Makefile.am, namely the first two lines- it would be nice if
we could do this in contrib/ as well.

I'll apply this; awaiting further patches for fixing the rest of the
scripts and adding the above automake option. :)

-Dan