On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 06:42:39AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> : BTW, who exactly made such a questionable decision without asking for
> : input from the users (I'm certain I wouldn't have missed such a
> : discussion, though I admit I've not scanned the mailing list archives to
> : see if the question was cleverly hidden from all us Unix radicals).
> 
> It's called `backwards compatibility', dear.  It's one of NetBSD's primary
> goals.
> 
> Now go away.

I didn't see anyone answer the question that was posed:

Is this long option support going to grow to other commands, or is it 
only tar(pax) that will be affected?

Count me on the side of wanting to perform....
rm --recursive --local_system_and_other_NetBSD_installs_with_default_config \
--type_executable_supporting_silly_long_command_line_options --type_ \
sources_for_executables_supporting_silly_long_command_line_options --forcibly /

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