Are long options bad? (rpm packaging)

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

>> I notice that the gThumb rpms are patched to remove mention of the -s
>> and -f command line options in the man page. Instead, only the long
>> versions (--slideshow and --fullscreen) are mentioned.
>>
>> Why? Is this a fedora packaging policy?
> 
> Dunno (good question for pkg maintainer), no, respectively.

Oh, found it - the short options used to be broken.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349747

- Mike