Config: clarify {SHOW,VERBOSE,COMPRESS}_USAGE

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
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Bernhard Reutner-Fischer 2011-11-09 20:23:38 +01:00
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@ -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