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/usr/bin/pgbouncer_exporter --no-help
usage: pgbouncer_exporter []
Flags:
-h, --[no-]help                Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).

--help and --no-help does the same thing, what are we doing here??

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/fa8378ae-0672-4ce7-8b2b-05579d38f041/i-m-sorry-whatRSS for NodeSat, 24 Oct 2026 21:08:13 GMTThu, 08 Oct 2026 10:52:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to i'm sorry what on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:10:17 GMT]]>@rune Looks like they use this library for argument parsing (which the author seems to have more or less deprecated / put into maintenance mode) https://github.com/alecthomas/kingpin#boolean-values

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/117404979521237565https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/117404979521237565Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:10:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm sorry what on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:00:47 GMT]]>@reynir There is one other that actually makes sense to negate

  --[no-]web.systemd-socket  Use systemd socket activation listeners instead of port listeners (Linux only).

but it's just the kind of thing that throws me off so hard. They either couldn't figure out how to make this work on only one argument or they just don't care and in either case I am worried what else they struggled with

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01M4DJRGGFBN4RMR1BQ95T2K5Mhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01M4DJRGGFBN4RMR1BQ95T2K5MThu, 08 Oct 2026 11:00:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm sorry what on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:58:31 GMT]]>@rune is it a general pattern that every option has a --no- alternative?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/117404933271007245https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/117404933271007245Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:58:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm sorry what on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:55:56 GMT]]>There is also a --no-version flag which prints the version.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01M4DJFKPB9901VED66EJHNF9Shttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01M4DJFKPB9901VED66EJHNF9SThu, 08 Oct 2026 10:55:56 GMT