> What is the rationale behind this? Could you please explain that > further?
Since nowadays egrep and fgrep are just shell scripts that run 'grep -E' or 'grep -F', running grep directly is always faster. Furthermore, I believe that some people are working on POSIXifying base for some embedded applications; grep -[EF] are mandated by POSIX, [ef]grep are not. This is not a major issue, but the only downside of adding it to lintian would be potentially annoying people.
