On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:12:55PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> 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.
> 
> 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
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