On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote:
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> That the option '-' is depreciated in favor of '-l' could be emphasized 
> more.
> 

it could be emphasised more. but we have a lot of pages using a fairly
standard format (describe what option does, but note it is deprecated).
we could talk about moving all pages to that format, but that's really
another discussion. to be honest, i don;t see any immediate value to
warrant such a change - i think it's enough to say we discourage its use.

as to deprecate->depreciate. well, "depreciate" is not really correct.
it's an oft-abused term, but it really just means that something has
lost value. i guess we could argue that's a better description than
"deprecate", but that again is another argument.

in summary, i don;t see this going in.
jmc

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> Index: su.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/su/su.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -p -r1.24 su.1
> --- su.1	31 May 2007 19:20:17 -0000	1.24
> +++ su.1	8 Mar 2010 20:02:22 -0000
> @@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ file (see
>  The options are as follows:
>  .Bl -tag -width Ds
>  .It Fl
> -Same as the
> +(depreciated)  Use the
>  .Fl l
> -option (deprecated).
> +option instead.
>  .It Fl a Ar auth-type
>  Specify an authentication type such as
>  .Dq skey ,