On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:40:14 +0200
"era eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Pipes seem ideal, { for a 'Providers:' field } since for '.deb's they mean
> > XOR.
>
> Well, they clutter the output, and don't really add anything. Just a
> whitespace separator makes the data easier to cut and paste. I'm not
> at all really sure how to prioritize this.
True, whitespace is easier for cutting and pasting to another command
line. But 'dlocate' already uses '|' and ','. Depending on the field,
those chars have different logical meanings:
',' '|'
Depends: AND XOR
Recommends: OR n/a
Suggests: OR n/a
The '|' seems to be used consistantly, and would be accurate for a 'Providers'
field.
I'm not sure if it's a bug or not that the ',' has field dependent meanings.
>>>>>>>>>>>>digressions start<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
A 'wishlist' bug that might follow from this is an output flag that
prints these fields with whitespace separators. For 'Depends' it should
also remove anything between parenthesis. But replacing a '|' with
whitespace in 'Depends:' would make trouble. Tricky...
I think an X clipboard tool with filters would be help. You'd
select the line, so it goes in the clipboard. Click on your
clipboard icon in the taskbar, maybe check a box next to the filter you
wanted, ("no commas" let's say), then paste it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>digressions end<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > Interesting point about 'dlocate' having its own conventions for
> > switch syntax. Instead of '-v' then, any mnemonic suggesting
> > 'Virtual' would do
>
> I humbly suggest '-virtual' to go with the other full-length options
> (-conf, -lsconf, -md5sum, -md5check, -man -- these have a single
> hyphen, too)
I like '-virtual'.
> ... Or simply replacing the current option processing with something a
> little less insane, but that would entail breaking backwards
> compatibility. Privately, I've been toying with the idea to create a
> competing package which straightens out some of dlocate's quirks.
> Unfortunately, I'm afraid I can't commit to being a more active
> maintainer than the current (non-)maintainer of dlocate.
If it's mainly just syntax, howbout a wrapper script? If you can stay
in the Bourne shell, or even 'bash', it would have virtually no
dependencies.
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