> I consider the following approach less confusing:
>
> ```
> Query options:
> --query retrieve information
> about packages
> etc.
> ```
>
> It would help if we could rearrange the sections so that mode selectors come
> up first.
You should probably look at it from the perspective of a new user (for whom the
help page is primarily meant). What I mean is, if you put `--query` in there,
what prevents the user from thinking they could use the other options in that
section, separately?
```
Query options (with -q or --query):
--query retrieve information about packages
--dump dump basic file information
-l, --list list files in package
--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT use the following query format
-s, --state display the states of the listed files
```
There just isn't the obvious link between `--query` and the other options which
only make sense when `--query` is specified. For example, you can't just run
`rpm -l` or `rpm -s`.
That being said, the automatic help output has its limitations, some of which
are hard limitations of `popt` while others are just the result of the way we
structure and feed the data to popt. So by all means, patches are welcome :)
> This looks like "the WTF approach" to me.
Care to elaborate?
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