On 7/25/09, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> My main concern here is the integration of manual page functionality into
> the commands themselves. I see both benefits and costs. The benefit is
> that the documentation is more likely to match the actual command. But part
> of the cost is a much higher cost to perform localization for these, and
> (depending on implementation) a potentially larger minimum size of the
> binaries. (I'm assuming for the moment that the documentation is stored in
> the binary, and the command is doing more than just executing some pipeline
> to access the manual content from /usr/share/man or whatever.)
>
> Personally, I think --man, --html and --nroff and such is a dangerous
> precedent to set.
What about --help and --version? Do you object to those options, too?
Would you drop your concerns if Roland would rename --man to
--extended-help?
Chris
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