* Mon 2007-10-22 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> INBOX
> Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> This contradicts the de facto convention that people are used to in
>> popular Unix programs.
>
> Not really, there are for example a great many man pages that list
> --help and --version last since they're the least used options. cp(1)
> and ls(1) amoung them.

If you look at the listing of ls(1) and cp(1) they uniformally list the
options in alphabetical order. There is a special SELINUX section and
exception for --help option only. Similarly for usermod(1), mv(1),
tar(1), head(1) and other standard commands.

Jari

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