From b9f4cd85f0e9c62aba2d6f1be67eb8369fdcedce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 20:23:38 +0100 Subject: Config: clarify {SHOW,VERBOSE,COMPRESS}_USAGE Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer --- Config.in | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Config.in') 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 --help is called. + Store usage messages in .bz compressed form, uncompress them + on-the-fly when --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 -- cgit v1.2.3