Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:54:20 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> Cc: 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: <505763CC.1040102@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83-YFsYN4s-rCE0YHXMjgvzv3JKYJ3fuC9Lz_ZJX6s51zg@mail.gmail.com> References: <201209171714.q8HHEEtY057677@svn.freebsd.org> <50575D0F.6090502@FreeBSD.org> <CADLo83_Rg9vvMZ8HA3s71nfZ0oePcodHcWv84Sbbdhg1iM_o-g@mail.gmail.com> <50576033.2090201@FreeBSD.org> <5057615E.40502@FreeBSD.org> <CADLo83-YFsYN4s-rCE0YHXMjgvzv3JKYJ3fuC9Lz_ZJX6s51zg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/17/2012 10:45, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 17 September 2012 18:43, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 9/17/2012 12:38 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> On 09/17/2012 10:30, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>> On 17 September 2012 18:25, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> Is the pkg syntax actually backwards from both portupgrade and portmaster?
>>>>
>>>> From man pkg-set:
>>>>
>>>> -o [<oldorigin>:<neworigin>]
>>>>
>>>> So yes :)
>>>
>>> Thanks to everyone who replied.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's a bit too late to change it. There's no point in
>> discussing/debating it at this point (past 1.0). This is something that
>> could have been changed before the first official release.
Um, no, it's something that shouldn't have been done wrong in the first
place.
> Also... it doesn't do the same thing either.
All the more reason to use a different flag.
--
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do
something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)
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