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Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:15:21 -0400

   > The following should work to compile only syslogd, as per
   > ./configure --help, INSTALL and README.
   > 
   > ./configure --disable-server --disable-clients --enable-syslogd
   > 
   > What `four lines' did you use?  Maybe something can be improved.

   i just disabled everything i didn't want, which made up four text
   lines (rows?) on my monitor. if --enable-syslogd works,
   --disable-syslogd=no should work too (by convention), like
   --disable-syslogd should be substitutable with
   --enable-syslogd=no. using --disable-syslogd=no has the advantage
   that one can middle-click (Xorg quick copy/paste) the option from
   the configure --help output.

Please show the exact command you used.  Did you try the one I suggested?

   >    what about an iproute implementation (without berkeley-db
   >    dependency ;)
   > 
   > Would you like to write such a program for us?

   would i then ask you for doing it? i'm not in this field of
   programming, just maintain a system. sorry.

Someone has to do it, would you like to do so?

   >    (btw., choosing -? for help and -h for hop on the syslogd
   >    command line is not a good choice in my eyes. please rethink!)
   > 
   > You will need to have a stronger argument than "I don't like it".

   just direct your argument against yourself and ask yourself what
   'strong argument' you had for breaking with the
   tradition/convention.  what you did is inconsistent with thousands
   of other command-line tools for *nix (and even for w*ndows) and
   thus a pain in the ass for every admin with weak memory!

The `unix' tradition was to not have any help output from programs, -h
was already used for different tools and -? made the most sense to us.



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