[BusyBox] [PATCH] eject umount patch 2

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri May 13 14:15:07 UTC 2005


On Friday 13 May 2005 08:50 am, Tito wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2005 05:16, you wrote:
> > Anybody think it would be a bad idea for me to go through and make a "use
> > long options" global config option?  In this one case I think the noise
> > is greater than the benefit from #ifdefing it out (since the machinery in
> > libbb to handle long options would still be there anyway)...
>
> For the global config option, i think it solves some problems but creates
> others so it is not worth the work.
> 1) there are applets that didn't have long options at all
> 2) there are/were applets with some options that are only long-options
> 3) its better if you can select it on the single applet so you can enable
>      them only where needed ( by a script or similar) saving some space.

hmm i guess i caved in too early ... didnt think anyone else would care :)

i agree with the points listed here even if i couldnt describe them myself
-mike



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