[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] standard gnu "obligatory" arguments

[Jan Knutar]

On Saturday 30 October 2004 02:58, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> imo this functionality is not needed. mplayer does not use gnu options
> to begin with, so why should it be "gnu compliant"? -version would
> make sense tho...

Perhaps the Linux kernel Documentation/CodingStyle expresses it best:

"First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
and NOT read it.  Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture."

:)