Big cleanup in config help and description

Redundant help texts (one which only repeats the description)
are deleted.

Descriptions and help texts are trimmed.

Some config options are moved, even across menus.

No config option _names_ are changed.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

6 files changed, 17 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/archival/Config.src b/archival/Config.src
index 5e7cfc0a4..0c97f3d7c 100644
--- a/archival/Config.src
+++ b/archival/Config.src
@@ -8,32 +8,22 @@ menu "Archival Utilities"
 config FEATURE_SEAMLESS_XZ
 	bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .xz data"
 	default y
-	help
-	  Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .xz data.
 
 config FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
 	bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .lzma data"
 	default y
-	help
-	  Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .lzma data.
 
 config FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2
 	bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .bz2 data"
 	default y
-	help
-	  Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .bz2 data.
 
 config FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ
 	bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .gz data"
 	default y
-	help
-	  Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .gz data.
 
 config FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z
 	bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .Z data"
 	default n  # it is ancient
-	help
-	  Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .Z data.
 
 INSERT
 
diff --git a/archival/ar.c b/archival/ar.c
index e49d5cb2b..d119c75ad 100644
--- a/archival/ar.c
+++ b/archival/ar.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 //config:	  probably say N here: most compilers come with their own ar utility.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES
-//config:	bool "Support for long filenames (not needed for debs)"
+//config:	bool "Support long filenames (not needed for debs)"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on AR
 //config:	help
diff --git a/archival/bbunzip.c b/archival/bbunzip.c
index aa8453440..fb7a3678d 100644
--- a/archival/bbunzip.c
+++ b/archival/bbunzip.c
@@ -312,8 +312,6 @@ int uncompress_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 //config:	bool "Enable long options"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on (GUNZIP || ZCAT) && LONG_OPTS
-//config:	help
-//config:	  Enable use of long options.
 
 //applet:IF_GUNZIP(APPLET(gunzip, BB_DIR_BIN, BB_SUID_DROP))
 //applet:IF_ZCAT(APPLET_ODDNAME(zcat, gunzip, BB_DIR_BIN, BB_SUID_DROP, zcat))
@@ -522,7 +520,7 @@ int bunzip2_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 //config:	  IOW: you'll get lzma applet, but it will always require -d option.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_LZMA_FAST
-//config:	bool "Optimize unlzma for speed"
+//config:	bool "Optimize for speed"
 //config:	default n
 //config:	depends on UNLZMA || LZCAT || LZMA
 //config:	help
diff --git a/archival/cpio.c b/archival/cpio.c
index 540218cb2..683f0bb1f 100644
--- a/archival/cpio.c
+++ b/archival/cpio.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 //config:	  should probably say N here.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_CPIO_O
-//config:	bool "Support for archive creation"
+//config:	bool "Support archive creation"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on CPIO
 //config:	help
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 //config:	  format only.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_CPIO_P
-//config:	bool "Support for passthrough mode"
+//config:	bool "Support passthrough mode"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on FEATURE_CPIO_O
 //config:	help
diff --git a/archival/gzip.c b/archival/gzip.c
index 63bf76053..e698c26cd 100644
--- a/archival/gzip.c
+++ b/archival/gzip.c
@@ -48,11 +48,9 @@ aa:      85.1% -- replaced with aa.gz
 //config:	bool "Enable long options"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on GZIP && LONG_OPTS
-//config:	help
-//config:	  Enable use of long options, increases size by about 106 Bytes
 //config:
 //config:config GZIP_FAST
-//config:	int "Trade memory for gzip speed (0:small,slow - 2:fast,big)"
+//config:	int "Trade memory for speed (0:small,slow - 2:fast,big)"
 //config:	default 0
 //config:	range 0 2
 //config:	depends on GZIP
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 8e315c610..b1d58a2df 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -49,13 +49,15 @@
 //config:	  create compressed archives. It's probably the most widely used
 //config:	  UNIX archive program.
 //config:
+//config:config FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS
+//config:	bool "Enable long options"
+//config:	default y
+//config:	depends on TAR && LONG_OPTS
+//config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
-//config:	bool "Enable archive creation"
+//config:	bool "Enable -c (archive creation)"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on TAR
-//config:	help
-//config:	  If you enable this option you'll be able to create
-//config:	  tar archives using the `-c' option.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_AUTODETECT
 //config:	bool "Autodetect compressed tarballs"
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@
 //config:	  a list of files to include or exclude from an archive.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
-//config:	bool "Support for old tar header format"
+//config:	bool "Support old tar header format"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on TAR || DPKG
 //config:	help
@@ -93,22 +95,12 @@
 //config:	  tarballs still exist.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
-//config:	bool "Support for GNU tar extensions (long filenames)"
+//config:	bool "Support GNU tar extensions (long filenames)"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on TAR || DPKG
-//config:	help
-//config:	  With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and
-//config:	  linknames.
-//config:
-//config:config FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS
-//config:	bool "Enable long options"
-//config:	default y
-//config:	depends on TAR && LONG_OPTS
-//config:	help
-//config:	  Enable use of long options, increases size by about 400 Bytes
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_TO_COMMAND
-//config:	bool "Support for writing to an external program"
+//config:	bool "Support writing to an external program (--to-command)"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on TAR && FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS
 //config:	help
@@ -121,20 +113,17 @@
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on TAR
 //config:	help
-//config:	  Enables use of user and group names in tar. This affects contents
+//config:	  Enable use of user and group names in tar. This affects contents
 //config:	  listings (-t) and preserving permissions when unpacking (-p).
 //config:	  +200 bytes.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME
-//config:	bool "Enable -m (do not preserve time) option"
+//config:	bool "Enable -m (do not preserve time) GNU option"
 //config:	default y
 //config:	depends on TAR
-//config:	help
-//config:	  With this option busybox supports GNU tar -m
-//config:	  (do not preserve time) option.
 //config:
 //config:config FEATURE_TAR_SELINUX
-//config:	bool "Support for extracting SELinux labels"
+//config:	bool "Support extracting SELinux labels"
 //config:	default n
 //config:	depends on TAR && SELINUX
 //config:	help