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On Friday 27 December 2013 10:58:15 you wrote: > virt-sysprep either runs with all default operations or a selected > list of operations with the --enable argument. A few times I've > found I'd like to use the default list, but minus one or two > operations in particular, however there's no easy way to specify > this. > > A --disable argument that took the

...allow multiple and concatenate them together? So that --operations foo,bar --operations -baz would be equivalent to --operations foo,bar,-baz ? Multiple --operations could be useful for scripting, ie. it would let shell users write: opts="--operations all -a disk.img" if [ $disable_foo ]; then opts="$opts --operations -foo"; fi Another thing to test is whether the OCaml argument parser[1] can handle '--operations -foo' without thinking that -foo is a separate arg. Rich. [1] It is not as sophisticated as GNU getopt, and a very long way from Perl & Python...

...operations foo,bar --operations -baz > > would be equivalent to > > --operations foo,bar,-baz > > ? > > Multiple --operations could be useful for scripting, ie. it would let > shell users write: > > opts="--operations all -a disk.img" > if [ $disable_foo ]; then opts="$opts --operations -foo"; fi I agree, allowing multiple --operations is a good thing. After all, given the proposed behaviour, every --operation would alter the existing set of operations (empty at the first --operation invocation, as with --enable), instead of starting f...