On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:58:02 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 25 July 2012 19:20, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > The man page is generated from qemu-options.hx which also generates the
> > help output.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we're still stuck in the "everyone yells at Anthony when
> > he tries to change the help output because of libvirt" state.
> 
> I think we should simply say "no, parsing -help is broken and wrong and it
> was obviously broken and wrong and we are in fact going to change the
> help output for QEMU 1.2, and you will need a new libvirt that can
> cope with that". We can't be held hostage forever to really bad decisions
> like that.

We have to provide an alternative before doing that.

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