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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383577#c5


Ján Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                                         |Added
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             Status|NEW                                             |NEEDINFO
      Info Provider|                                                
|volker3204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
            Summary|zypper help misses options                      |zypper 
help misses options (rug options)




--- Comment #5 from Ján Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-04-26 12:24:26 MST ---
(In reply to comment #4 from Volker Kuhlmann)
> I am referring to http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev 
> which
> gives
>
> ... zypper in -y -f -n $i; ...
>
> and I wanted to now what the options do. (Again) I got confused between global
> and local options. As the command above works, -y is not documented in zypper
> help or zypper help in, nor is it in man zypper under install (it is under rug
> commands, though, but that doesn't apply here).

It does apply here. -y is an old-fashioned option and is supported only for
compatibility with rug. If we were to show all such options in the help texts
and in the main man page command descriptions, it would be quite a mess.
Instead, we show them only in the COMPATIBILITY WITH RUG section.

Zypper could just say -y is an unknown option unless --rug-compatible global
option is used, but that would probably be too annoying to users who are used
to rug.

Do you have a suggestion what should be changed in this regard? Of course,
these rug options should not be presented on wikies or elsewhere, but we can't
watch that :(

> -m -a are documented under zypper help clean, my fault.
>
> man zypper:
>
> Each command accepts the options listed in the GLOBAL OPTIONS section. In
> addition, many commands have specific options, which are listed in this
> section.
>
> Also, "each command accepts global options" makes me think I can put global
> options either before or after the command, making me wonder what happens in
> this case:
>
> zypper -n in
> zypper in -n
> zypper -n in -n
>
> Rephrase to "global options can be used before any command"?

That sounds reasonable, thanx.

I've changed the text to:
zypper provides a number of commands. Each command accepts the options listed
in the GLOBAL  OPTIONS  section. These  options  must  be  specified before the
command name. In addition, many commands have specific options, which are
listed in this section. These command-specific options must be specified after
the name of the  command and before any of the command arguments.


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