On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 12:09:22AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, 2014-03-31, 15:34:
> >>>>So I like the idea of new option. Now the hard part is inventing a
> >>>>name for the switch... Do you have any suggestions?
> >>>Since adequate only has long options so far, what about "--exit-code"
> >>>or even "--also-report-via-exit-code"?
> >>
> >>Hmm. What do you think about --fatal?
> >
> >Sounds ok-ish.
> >
> >If you know what it is for, it fits. But if you'd have to guess by just
> >seeing the option, I'm not sure if you guess that it relates to the exit
> >code only...
> 
> I'm not very fond of it either. But --exit-code is also not guessable, and
> --also-report-via-exit-code is way too long.
> 
> If it's not going to be possible to guess what the option means anyway, and
> since we anticipate it'll be often-used, maybe a short option would serve
> better? "-e" comes to mind (akin to shell's "-e").

What about --fail?

--fail

    Exit with a non-zero exit code if the package failed at least one
    check.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>

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