On 11.03.2012 02:59, Andreas Vogel wrote:
> Am
>> Yes. And allowing "-s root" to continue is more important than to allow
>> -s with no argument.
> Don't get your point here. "-s" with no argument is already allowed.
> This is actually causing the "unexpected behavior" I'm talking about.
I mean that handling -s root -u UUID is more important than -u -s UUID
since former is widespread in the existing scripts.
>> We can rename ARG_OPTIONAL to ARG_OLD_OPTIONAL, make ARG_OLD_OPTIONAL to
>> behave as to ignore X in  --set X as possible argument.
> I don't understand that.
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> The "old" behavior, e.g. for "search -s|--set", is that if there is no
> argument "-s" or "--set" needs to be followed by another option or by
> "--". In other words: any argument which is not an option that follows
> -s or --set will be taken as the argument for -s or --set. That's the
> current situation.
I mean changing the behaviour to GNU-like for long but not for short
option. And it actually matches 1.98 behaviour.
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