Some reason rdmd uses -v instead of -deps?

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 04:35:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Does anyone know why RDMD collects dependencies using "-v" 
> instead of "-deps"?
>
> I was thinking of doing a PR to switch it to -deps as that 
> would help solve a couple problems, but I'm not sure if there's 
> already some reason why it's using -v instead. (I could've 
> sworn it used to use -deps at some point years ago.)

Pretty sure that -deps didn't exist when rdmd was initially 
built. I'd think that any other use for using -v would be 
considered a bug in -deps.