GNU bug report logs - #56432
run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 08:38:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56432: run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:56:55 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Do we really need both the `dig' and the `run-dig' commands?
>
> Should one of them be obsoleted?  If we want to be able to specify both
> query-type and server, we could consider using double and triple
> prefixes for that.  Or even write a transient.

Looks like `run-dig' should be obsoleted (since it's just a wrapper
around the "dig" program) and has worse output.

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