On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 07:09:02AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> Hi Benno,
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:44:43AM +0200 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Long options are nice, but they should be as different from each other
> > as possible, so that one can abbreviate them to just a few letters.
> > (Not that abbreviating matters here, but that is the general idea.)
> >
> > The side effect of this change is that the usage text becomes more
> > readable.
> >
>
> This one seems a bit more like bike-shedding. We did go around a bit
> during development. I don't remember if a version of util-linux has
> shipped with this in it or not yet but this could break users. There
> may not be that many yet anyway, of course.
It's already released, so it is truly a backward-incompatible change.
Karel
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