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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:44:19 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r259058 - head/usr.bin/bc
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgmw%2BcjJUqVQUy2WyHbcS2-7od=4gQDK%2BL9%2BriVzX%2BZYwg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201312070627.rB76RtGr022954@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201312070627.rB76RtGr022954@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: delphij
> Date: Sat Dec  7 06:27:54 2013
> New Revision: 259058
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259058
>
> Log:
>   Remove mention of the compatibility option 'q', which is
>   intentionally undocumented and its only purpose is that
>   we do not bail out when used as a drop-in replacement of
>   a different implementation.

As I mentioned in the reply to the PR this change goes in the wrong direction.

We should instead document -q as a compatibility option.
Undocumented flags, even as NOPS, are bugs.


-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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