[PATCH modular] Change order of help screen.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Mon Oct 18 05:13:13 PDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:59:58 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com>
> 
> If the user is using a smaller screen, the command-line options may scroll
> off leaving only the environment variables. Since the options are probably
> more interesting to most users, display the environment variables first,
> followed by the command-line options.
> 
Command line options followed by env vars matches configure --help
output, I think it's better to keep that consistency.  Maybe we should
have fewer options.  Or people could have scroll buffers.

Cheers,
Julien


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