Ok.  It should be trivial to add --add-mirror --remove-mirror as
longopts for -m and -M.  I'll go ahead and do that.

-j

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:39:17PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-04 19:23]:
> > > >         http://cr.opensolaris.org/~johansen/pkg-mirror1/
> > > 
> > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~johansen/pkg-mirror1/src/client.py.wdiff.html
> > > ==========
> > >        105 +            [-O origin_url] [-m mirror to add] [-M mirror to 
> > > remove] authority
> > > 
> > > I don't think -m and -M are very obvious -- they don't say to me as a 
> > > user, "add and remove."  Specifically, it would be too easy to say -M 
> > > when I met -m or vice-versa.
> > > 
> > > Could we use --add-mirror and --remove-mirror instead or some other set 
> > > of letters like -a and -r?
> > 
> > I had a completely separate set of commands that you could use to add or
> > remove a mirror.  I had run the idea by Dan and Danek, and they were
> > fine with it.  However, Stephen objected to that usage and wanted these
> > to be a subcommand of set-authority.  I don't agree, but he was pretty
> > firm about that.  You'll need to take this up with him.
> 
>   set-authority --add-mirror url authority
>   set-authority --remove-mirror url authority
> 
>   seem fine to me.  I think that discouraging the introduction of
>   mirrors as a top-level configurable object on the client is still
>   sensible, given that we haven't reached a conclusion about multiple
>   authorities inside a single repository.
> 
>   - Stephen
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