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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:58:03PM -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> I am curious what is our policy on using long options in the base system 
> (if any)? I believe that pkg_install is the first non-contributed base 
> system utility to actually widely use it.

Consider what happens when you want to split -f into different options
that are more selective. Long options are more intuitive than random
letters for that purpose.

Joerg