[MacPorts] #56434: Inconsistent flag names --nosync and --no-mirror

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Sat May 5 10:43:13 UTC 2018


#56434: Inconsistent flag names --nosync and --no-mirror
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 Reporter:  ryandesign  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:  MacPorts 2.5.0
Component:  base        |    Version:  2.4.99
 Keywords:              |       Port:
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 `sudo port selfupdate` accepts a flag `--nosync`.

 `sudo port fetch` accepts a flag `--no-mirrors`.

 It is confusing that one of the flags uses a hyphen (`-`) between words
 and the other does not.

 Since `--no-mirrors` is new for MacPorts 2.5.0 which was not been released
 yet, we could easily change it to `--nomirrors` before release without
 introducing confusion for most users.

 Or, if we like the hyphenated version better, we could change the
 selfupdate flag to `--no-sync`, while keeping `--nosync` for backward
 compatibility. I don't see any other multiword options that aren't
 hyphenated, so this is probably the alternative I'd go with.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56434>
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