On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, David Quigley <selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've given a few talks on SELinux over the past year and I've spoken to a > bunch of people on google+ about SELinux and one topic keeps coming up. Many > people find semanage to be large and convoluted with the help text being way > to large to sort through. The latter part of the complaint is easy to > address. The code for argument parsing in semanage (last time I checked) > doesn't use things like argparse. If we switched it over to argparse we > could get per sub-command help messages that would be more useful to people > when they messed up a sub-command. Would anyone be opposed if I spent the > time to migrate semanage argument parsing and help messages over to argparse > or a similar library? I'm not sure that's even possible. For example, my all-time favourite "quirk" of semanage is: semanage fcontext -d --ftype -d /some/dir The first -d is the flag, while the second -d is actually a value passed to --ftype. I'm not sure if argparse will do the right job parsing this -- my brain certainly doesn't. :) Best, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev LinuxFoundation.org Montréal, Québec -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux
