On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ! > >>> bbox's find does support "-not" - you need to enable DESKTOP >>> in .config. >> >>Why? > > The idea behind this was space saving on none desktop version > (e.g. initramfs versions of Busybox). The base syntax of find was > the explation mark for the NOT operation. So any extra syntax > needs extra space, which shall only be included on full desktop > version of BB. Through the time more people tend to use the > alternate syntax, the "-not" notation. So it tends more to be the > standard to have this notation. > > IMO we should disable the desktop feature dependency on the "-not" > in find and include it in all versions of BB. >
You have some numbers how bb-binary grows when enabling DESKTOP in dot-config? How many bytes more has bb-binary when find "-not" feature is builtin? I guess not that much :-). IOW, I agree with you. - Sedat - _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
