diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 1f5f265ae..eaa10b42e 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -104,11 +104,13 @@ config CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
 	  busybox to support locale settings.
 
 config CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
-	bool "Enable support for --long-options"
-	default n
-	help
-	  Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
-	  style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
+	bool
+	default y
+#	bool "Enable support for --long-options"
+#	default n
+#	help
+#	  Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
+#	  style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS
 	bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"