On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:12:55PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I think it is bad idea to only allow this operation when long options > >>> are enabled. Long options and this functionality are two separate > >>> things in my book. > >> > >> > >> "Standard" deluser has only long options. > >> > >> Incompatibility is not a good thing. > > > > Sure, but busybox has short option in other cases for such operation, > > so you need incompatibility somewhere anyway. > > I think it was a mistake to add incompatible short options > to applets whose "standard" versions had only long options. > > > In addition, the long option is not the problem. The problem is that > > the functionality is switched off by switching the long option off, > > rather than the actual functionality. > > It's about 6.5 kbytes of code in static build.
6.5 kbytes increase per bloatcheck? Having used DD-WRT on a WRT-54Gv8, I'm inclined to say that that justifies making it optional. Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
