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Re: sbin/gpt usage



On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:21:05 +0100, Aymeric Vincent wrote:
> I plan to remove support for the apparently never documented former
> syntax and update the UEFI makefile's accordingly, unless someone
> remembers why it should remain and on which condition it should be
> enabled: the default should be the documented syntax.

I would rather it stayed. Christos mentioned adding it in bin/51230. 

I appreciated at the time, since it always tripped me up that gpt(8) 
has 'gpt command <device>', whereas dkctl(8) has 'dkctl <device> 
command'.

I guess there's precedence for dump(8) for a hidden set of options...

Cheerio,
hauke
 
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