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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:54:57 +0200
From:      Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r304411 - head
Message-ID:  <CAJp7RHaFEQUA6U%2BGYnb=cvFZGRtAsgXnbFtDwh%2BZKEJOOc9Deg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> My point was not, "Teach me the pkg syntax for the -o option." My point
> was, "It's stupid for pkg to use exactly the opposite syntax from the 2
> most popular ports management tools for the same option flag."

"old:new" is more intuitive than "-o new old" from portmaster (I guess
portupgrade does the same). It's what people is accustomed to from
tools like `sed`, too.
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla



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