Inconsistencies in handling command flags: `--flag=value` different than `--flag value`

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Tue, Apr 28 2020, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> One final way we could normalize everything and make it less
> idiosyncratic, with shorter, simpler man pages: deprecate and then drop
> the --booloption/--no-booloption mechanisms, requiring --booloption=true
> or --booloption=false instead.  Once they're dropped, allow whitespace
> between "--booloption true" and "--booloption false" just like every
> other type of option.

Or we could just use only --booloption/--no-booloption...

jamie.