[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main configure,1.1029,1.1030

[The Wanderer]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 
>> Hehe, at last ...
>> 
>> The behaviour of --enable have been the source of at least 2 great
>> flamewars.
>> 
>> My position was that they should be named --force, while --enable
>> to be autodetections.
> 
> this sounds much more reasonable and intuitive to me

Except that it's useless, because either no autodetection is available
(so there would be nothing for --enable to do) or it is performed
automatically unless overridden (so --enable would be redundant).

And there are other people, including me, to whom it sounds considerably
*less* intuitive - for what that's worth.

There was a suggestion, towards the end of the last time this topic came
up, for an alternative naming scheme such that the meaning of --enable
did not change, and I seem to recall having found it acceptable - but it
never went anywhere, and at present the details escape me.

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