RFE: Make table style selection a config option about zypper HOT 7 OPEN

Out of curiosity, what shell are you using and how are you setting the alias.

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It's bash, with alias zypper='zypper -s 1' defined.

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OK, thanks.

I'm guessing that in order to having this as a configuration in zypp.conf, that limitation Zypper has about not supporting global options for sub-commands must be dealt with first. Zypper`s manpage states:

Using zypper global-options together with subcommands, as well as
executing subcommands in zypper shell is currently not supported.

Just like you see in the error message you're getting. But now I'm curious to now what are those limitations.

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You cant deal with this. A subcommand is a standalone program or shell script (like zypper-log). You can even write your own ones. We have no control about what options those programs support. We (the zypp-team) neither provide nor maintain most of them.

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That was the first thing that came to my mind, the "unknown" factor.

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We have no control about what options those programs support.

That's why I'm proposing a change, internal to zypper. I've picked zypper.conf because it already contains color configuration, and table style would complement it. By making it an entry in the configuration file, no more aliases with global options, which conflict with subcommands, would be necessary.

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Could that work out Michael? It kind of makes sense to have this as an option in zypper.conf to avoid that conflict IMO, since it wouldn't be Zypper outputting text, right?. How does Zypper handle sub-commands, is it just like a simple wrapper, or does it do something special?

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