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authorBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2011-11-09 20:23:38 +0100
committerBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2011-11-09 20:23:38 +0100
commitb9f4cd85f0e9c62aba2d6f1be67eb8369fdcedce (patch)
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parent743edac6c84ac207d0bb4c3124b0e8fe450a38b4 (diff)
downloadbusybox-b9f4cd85f0e9c62aba2d6f1be67eb8369fdcedce.tar.gz
Config: clarify {SHOW,VERBOSE,COMPRESS}_USAGE
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Config.in')
-rw-r--r--Config.in17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 1e7181261..79fe8ff9a 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -83,20 +83,21 @@ config FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_IN_BSS
endchoice
config SHOW_USAGE
- bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
+ bool "Show applet usage messages"
default y
help
- All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
- wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
- messages if you say no here.
- This will save you up to 7k.
+ Enabling this option, BusyBox applets will show terse help messages
+ when invoked with wrong arguments.
+ If you do not want to show any (helpful) usage message when
+ issuing wrong command syntax, you can say 'N' here,
+ saving approximately 7k.
config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
default y
depends on SHOW_USAGE
help
- All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
+ All BusyBox applets will show verbose help messages when
busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about
13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration.
@@ -106,8 +107,8 @@ config FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
default y
depends on SHOW_USAGE
help
- Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
- when <applet> --help is called.
+ Store usage messages in .bz compressed form, uncompress them
+ on-the-fly when <applet> --help is called.
If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might