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On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 02:05:39PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed:
> >rsync isn't bloated and it's well written IMO. It still does only one job, 
> >and
> >it does it well. As you say, most common tasks can still be done with only
> >short options. This would change if some developer decided to add other,
> >unrelated functionality. But that's harder if you want to maintain short 
> >options
> >for the common tasks.
> >Having only long options would place no such restrictions on bloating.
> >
> what program you mean about having only long options?

Wasn't referring to any particular program's. mplayer is an example though.
But that's not my point.