From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: some options are forgiving in that you can have either an equal sign or a space: --root <dir> --root=<dir> while others are less forgiving and actually match the syntax in the man page: --dbpath <dir> OK --dbpath=<dir> syntax error it might be nice if all of the options were consistent, one way or the other. rday Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -4.2.1-0.30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try running rpm with --dbpath=<dir> 2. 3. Additional info:
There's way too many options to undertake consistency revisions. What's needed is fewer, not more consistent, options.