831902 – app-admin/eclean-kernel Switch -a and -A for eclean-kernel to be consistent with emerge

Bug 831902 - app-admin/eclean-kernel Switch -a and -A for eclean-kernel to be consistent with emerge

Summary: app-admin/eclean-kernel Switch -a and -A for eclean-kernel to be consistent w...

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Michał Górny

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Reported:	2022-01-23 16:13 UTC by Kristoffer
Modified:	2022-01-25 11:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Kristoffer 2022-01-23 16:13:08 UTC

I believe it would be wise to switch the -a and -A command-line options for eclean-kernel for two reasons:

  1) To be consistent with emerge (I just removed all my kernels because I used -a instead of -A)

  2) Typing uppercase A is "harder" which would make it more like a "confirm to remove all kernels"


To not make current users confused it would probably be better to use uppercase R (-R) to remove all kernels and issue a deprecated message for -A. At least that is my opinion.