Re: [Logwatch] Fwd: Default to STDOUT: is it really a good thing?

> Funny I was actually thinking about doing something like that based on 
> Bjorn's comments. [ZTo justify keeping --encode as an option]
> 
> I was thinking --encode base64 [default], zip where base64 is default 
> isf--encode is used, so --encode or --encode base64 are both valid and 
> --encode zip,etc for other types of encoding. With out the --encode 
> option None is the default.
> 
> Is that too confusing?

So you want --encode to be the same as --encode base64?

I don't think it's a good idea to have more than one way to get the same
thing, as the only advantage I see is 7 chars less to type.

And --encode base64 is self-explaining, while --encode is not.

Willi