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dnf help: simplify usage message line #1870
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Thanks for the suggestion, we are trying to improve this in dnf5 by showing just the option specific to the command.
We are unlikely to improve the situation for this current dnf. |
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Currently the usage message line of
dnf help <command
is a long string, e.g. forremove
it is (line number added)Here only the options in line 14 (and 15) are specific to this command, all the previous ones are General DNF options.
I propose that this usage message should be simplified by replacing those general option listing with
[<general-option> ...]
. e.g.I hope this (along with removing help message for general options on
dnf help <command>
#1869) will make reading command specific usage meesage and help message much better (tidy) experience.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: