Re: [PATCH] libxtables: change option precedence order to be intuitive

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On 25.10.2010 23:57, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2010-10-19 17:16, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
>> When using `-m mark --mark 2 -m connmark --mark 2`, the user currently
>> gets an error about the (libxt_mark) --mark option being used twice.
>> This is because libxt_connmark's option table does not override any
>> previous options. This patch changes this behavior, since the current
>> behavior does not allow connmark's option to be used at all, which is
>> illogical.
> 
> As per fw's suggestion, I should nag you every 48 hours ;-)
> 
> Really, this should be in the next tag.

This stuff is pretty fragile and whenever we changed it, something broke
for users. Why not simply add new options  (--connmark etc). That would
also be more consistent with the other extensions.
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