Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 22.07.10 12:06, Dave Airlie (airlied@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: [...] > > Wow thats pretty special... both an option called realize and a > > argument, that won't get confusing no matter how long it lives, also > > realize doesn't seem to be conveying a useful meaning, I'm a native > > speaker and I'm not sure what you actually mean by realize in this > > context. > > > > I'm going with: > > > > to make real; give reality to (a hope, fear, plan, etc.). > > > > but its seems quite an abstract term to associate reality with an > > abstract computer object. > > Well, I am not a native speaker. We were looking for a verb that > basically means "make this take effect immediately". > i.e. the "enable"/"disable" commands makes some changes for the next > time they are looked at, and then adding --realize on top makes those > changes take effect immediately, i.e. so that the unit is start/stopped > according to those changes. We actually used "--start=" first (which > however is very confusing when you'd write "disable --start" to disable > something and then have it stop...) We then considered "--now", because > it is not a verb. What is wrong with that? "enable --now" and "disable --now" read right (to me at least). > But eventually we stuck with --realize. It's not > great, yes. But we couldnt think of anything better. Happy to take > suggestions. But no, --take-effect-immediately is not really an option. What do other commands use for "do it now" (instead of "later")? Perhaps the ubiquitous "-f/--force" will do? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
