[Toybox] Sigh, I broke defconfig...

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Apr 23 11:12:09 PDT 2025


On 4/23/25 09:16, enh wrote:
> are you sure you even want to bother with any of this? i feel like
> this is one of the 1980s "dynamic menus are bad" lessons --- better to
> have the option and let it explain why it doesn't work than to have it
> mysteriously sometimes not be there...

It's one of those "the decision is hard because the stakes are small" 
things. :P

The actual help editing part is already checked in and working. It was 
the historical behavior: not doing it when I switched the help.h 
generation over was a regression. I did think about just leaving (the "I 
could always just document" part of 
https://landley.net/notes-2025.html#10-04-2025) but having the help text 
describe the command's behavior seems like the right thing to do, and 
documenting PASSWD_SAD when it's not configured in would silently fail 
to enforce a constraint without error.

That said, I only implemented one layer of optional help text because 
I'm not supporting _more_ than that...

Rob


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