[pacman-dev] [PATCH 00/11] Streamline syntax of contrib scripts

[Dave Reisner]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 03:30:30PM +0200, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 09:04 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
> > > 
> > > Reorganize scripts in contrib to fit the syntax and style of
> > > makepkg.
> > > Unify multiple different approaches to e.g. write a usage function,
> > > handle
> > > options and differences in naming schemas for options.
> > 
> > Again, you're still putting flag names in the translatable strings.
> > This
> > will only ever end badly.
> 
> It has worked great for makepkg, see the git repo for dozens of
> examples [1].
> 
> [1] https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/scripts/makepkg.sh.in#n11
> 66

Has it worked great?

- id.po contains --noprapare instead of --noprepare
- da.po contains --finer instead of --finger
- sv.po contains --inout instead of --input

Repeating this mistake of allowing flags to be translated is purely
cargo-cult nonsense. Please don't do it.