On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:06 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Same with systemd. If you use "systemctl status foo.service" the output > > is human readable. If it is "systemctl show foo.service" it is computer > > parsable. Just a slightly different command of the systemctl tool. > > Again: this is confusing! There should be one (and only one) command to > show information. It should accept arguments to modify that output, > e.g. default to brief info, -v gets a little more info, -vv gets all > kinds of info, -p to get "parseable" output (or -f for "formatted"), > etc. > > Having "status" and "show" give the same info in different formats will > always be confusing. People won't remember which is which (because the > works mean similar things in this context) and will run the wrong one > for what they want about 50% of the time (which will just be > frustrating). I agree with Chris here, I find the 'one command, with modifying parameters' paradigm much the easiest to follow. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
