On Thursday 05 February 2015 19:48:47 Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.li...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> 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. > > 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. Therefore, busybox does not > remain as fine-tunable as possible. Which is why I said it was a bad > idea in my opinion. I would like to be able to customize busybox to > only include things what I want. Currently, if I do not want long > options, but I do want this small feature, I have to get everything. > This is against the minimal project principles. > Hi, i would dare to suggest to use:
-r for --remove-home and reserve -R for --remove-all-files (if we ever implement it). this would reduce incompatibility to a mininum. I am aware that this is not Laslo's preferred solution but for me looks better than mixing long options and remove home functionality. Just my 0.2 cents. Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
