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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> Third, it would be nice to allow passing extra parameter(s) to the
> backends, but I do not know what concept is the best here. The
> strategy1=foo,stategy2=bar limits the input to a single string. Is that
> enough? Given that recursive=theirs was considered harmful, we don't
> have too much examples;...

I personally think -sstrategy=string1,string2,... is simply a bad taste.

Why force yourself to parse things by having the users to concatenate
something that the user could give us separated?  If you care about the
order and association between strategy and their options, you can always
do:

	-s strategy1 -X option-1-for-strategy-1 -X option-2-for-strategy-1 \
	-s strategy2 -X option-1-for-strategy-2 ...