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Re: Support for boolean queries in apropos



> No, using "-" to present binary not is a bad choice.  apropos uses
> getopt and requiring the use of "--" to terminate the option list is
> a bad idea.

Then maybe apropos should stop using getopt.

Utilities and standards exist to serve users, after all.  Consistency
is good, but this is getting off into foolish-consistency territory,
the sort of foolish consistency that Emerson rightly called the
hobgoblin of little minds.

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