[PATCH] store --help messages in compressed form. saves 35k

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Fri Apr 7 05:57:27 UTC 2006


On Friday 7 April 2006 07:42, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:08:17AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > I have to ask how much of a win is compressing busybox help text?
> > 
> > On current allyesconfigured bbox it saves ~35k
> > 
> > > Certainly in the case of flash use, you're likely already using some
> > > type of compressed filesystem.  Maybe if you're doing XIP...  But then
> > > you're likely tight enough on ram that you wouldn't bother with the
> > > help text.
> > 
> > Right, memory-constrained setups won't select verbose --help support.
> 
> I'd like to have an option to remove all --help support, not just
> verbose. Don't think this exists yet unless it was added recently or
> I'm just blind.. If I really need to know usage info I can RTFM.

 [ ] Show terse applet usage messages                            
 [ ] Show verbose applet usage messages      

Ciao,
Tito
> Rich
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