Fix the addgroup help output

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Mon Aug 18 08:45:05 UTC 2014



Am 17.08.2014 11:22, schrieb Denys Vlasenko:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:11 PM, <lpapp at archlinux.us> wrote:
> 
>>  Applets are defining the help display text on their own, and it is
>> different for different applets.
>>
> 
> I don't see any obvious way to make it easier without significant bloat.
> 
> Pass a list of options, parameters and their explanations to a function
> which builds help text? This will likely be bigger than the help text
> (many pointers to small strings results in pointers taking
> almost the same amount of space than strings!)
> 
> Even if you manage to avoid _that_ bloat somehow,
> you can't bzip2-compress tiny bits of text.
> We currently bzip2-compress our help text as one big blob,
> with BIG savings in size - more than 50%
> 
> And then you discover that some applets really want a bit
> of customization to the way how options are explained.
> 
> 

Would that something for busybox.net/TODO section ?
"Verify that help text and option are in sync"

re,
 wh






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