Diego Biurrun <di...@biurrun.de> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun <di...@biurrun.de> writes:
>> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:56:05PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> >> On 11/14/2012 02:38 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> >> > Now the difference between "all" and "everything" seems arbitrary.
>> >> > Why don't we just set clear semantics on what we call "parts" and
>> >> > "components" or "components" and "subcomponents"?
>> >> 
>> >> From an usability point of view you are not going to change that option,
>> >> the best is to clarify it making so from reading --help you would not
>> >> expect it to disable something it does not.
>> >
>> > The usability is what I am trying to fix here, among other things.  Having
>> > both --disable-everything and --disable-all as options is a usability
>> > nightmare.  I'd have to look up which option did what myself in a few
>> > weeks time after implementing them...
>> >
>> > So what's bad about --disable-components or --disable-subcomponents?
>> > More importantly, what about those names is worse than what we have
>> > right now: --disable-everything?
>> 
>> For better or worse, we have --disable-everything now, and people are
>> using it.  Changing it to an equally arbitrary name will only make those
>> people angry.
>
> I suspect that I am one of the main users of that option, but anyway..
> Your remark misses the context of my proposal, which does not eliminate
> --disable-everything.

It changes the meaning of it, which is even worse.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
m...@mansr.com
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