"Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net> writes:
> Actually, there have more or less been plans to add long options to
> everything eventually.  I'm not sure I want to waste any time arguing
> about whether that's a good idea or not; it really comes down to a
> matter of religion.  My religion says that if a lot of people install
> GNU fileutils just to get long options (and they do), then maybe we
> should do something about that.

I thought that was the whole point of having installable packages.  A
lot of users (maybe even a majority of users) also install emacs or
bash, but the standard installation quite correctly doesn't assume
that everyone will want these things.

--Mirian