Drop --help and --version for LSB 2.0 (or even 1.9)
Tobias Burnus <[email protected]>
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Hello, Several commands list "--help" and "--version" as "LSB Deprecated Differences", for some commands like nl, nohup, paste etc. this is the only difference to the Single UNIX Specification. Given that --help should not be needed (only to figure out whether a parameter is there) and --version is completely useless (unless one knows that one wants to have a certain GNU version, assuming that this is a GNU tool). Also the -V or -v version and -h or -H help commands should be dropped. I don't know whether it is too late for 1.9, but at least for 2.0 this should be done. Tobias PS: Do I understand correctly that a "LSB Deprecated Differences" has to be supported? That means that I cannot use "star" as "tar" since it doesn't support e.g. "--confirmation"? :-(