>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> Let's not add additional options to Autoconf that practically
Bob> no-one will use. In particular, a concise help output is most
Bob> helpful for newbies rather than experts who know what will work
Bob> in the first place.
Agreed. I should have stressed the real purpose of this patch:
introduce --help=recursive for embedded packages. Then, of course you
don't want to see the common options repeated for all the packages,
hence you need --help=short. And then there is no reason to hide it,
since it's there.
Akim
