[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add -s --sign and -v --verify to repo-add usage message.

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 18:33:32 EDT 2011


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There were not added to the end of the list as that would mean
>>> splitting the single gettext string that contains -f and the
>>> "see the man page" message, and I wanted to do as little string
>>> damage as possible.
>>
>> Do string damage, it is a major release. But more importantly,
>> repo-remove --help is going to show these and we might want to try and
>> avoid that- I think the reason they weren't added here.
>
> The -d and -f flags already suffer from the same problem of showing up
> is repo-remove --help, when they don't apply there. Maybe I should put
> conditionals in usage() to tailor it to the right invocation. Really,
> this usage message is a bit off anyway, as it looks nothing like that
> of pacman, pacman-key, or makepkg. Thoughts?

Making it unified and correct for the command it is invoked for is
more than welcome- +1 from me.

-Dan


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