On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:15:41AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > Subject: Re: --no-detach option? > I'm starting to think we need to not show all the options in the > default --help output. I think perhaps the default should be to show > the commonly-used options (-avz, --include, : vs ::) and then have > --help-options and so on for more details. It is getting quite > ridiculous. There's one or two packages that do this, but I can't > remember which ones right at the moment.
I think the current way is OK. Other commands have long lists too, for example gpg and wget. They do both put them in labeled groups, however. That's a possibility, although I can't think of any nice logical grouping off the top of my head. - Dave Dykstra