Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 01:01:38AM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:30:27 +0200 >Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > >> We actually took this code from teamdctl (at least it was an influence). >> Devlink style is so much different in every aspect from the rest of the >> iproute2 suite. And I did it on purpose, because it is much nicer and >> easier to read. I would like to continue on this and don't do things in >> the was the existing tools do. I don't see any problem with that. > >No. That is road to ruin. Every package is free to use what ever style >it wants. But don't crossover please.
So we are stuck with some ugly way just because some other util does it? Well, in devlink I wrote lot of things differently, nicer. For example cmdline parsing. Why is it a "road to ruin"?
