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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Add emerge --autounmask-continue option (bug 582624)
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:39:26
Message-Id: 57768EA7.9020401@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Add emerge --autounmask-continue option (bug 582624) by Francesco Riosa
1 On 07/01/2016 05:45 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > thanks for your continuous work, just an implementation detail, it may
4 > be possible to avoid a new option reusing the current autounmask one?
5 >
6 > instead of
7 > --autounmask [ y | n ]
8 > --autounmask-only [ y | n ]
9 > --autounmask-write [ y | n ]
10 > --autounmask-continue [ y | n ]
11 >
12 > something like:
13 > --autounmask [ y | n | only | write | continue]
14 >
15 > especially if these options make no sense used together
16
17 That's an interesting idea, but my experience is that boolean options
18 lead to simpler code, so I would prefer to stick with booleans.
19 --
20 Thanks,
21 Zac