Re: Announcing pkg_search

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> It'd be relatively easy to add a switch to force "always list" behavior,
> which is less common than the need to get detailed info.

Well, of course it's *solvable*.  You could also (in principle) detect if 
you're running interactivly, or are being called from a script, and adjust 
the output accordingly.

But it's just not a good idea.  Principle of least surprise, the Unix 
philosophy, keep it simple, and all that.


This is all pretty off topic for the list though, and I don't feel like 
arguing about it.


MAgnus