[Rd] options(width=100) ignored on start-up: bug or feature?

Dear developers
I've tried this a couple of days ago on r-help, unfortunately with no
feedback. Could you please take a look and confirm whether it's a bug,
feature, or bad eye-sight when reading Help:

Is it normal that R ignores options("width"0) at start-up? Although
liviu at debian-liv:~$ cat /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site | grep width
options(width = 100)

, R will start with
[Previously saved workspace restored]
[1] 80

Am I doing something wrong?
Liviu

R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] datasets grid splines graphics stats utils grDevices
[8] tcltk methods base

other attached packages:
[1] fortunes_1.3-6 RcmdrPlugin.HH_1.1-25 HH_2.1-32
[4] leaps_2.9 multcomp_1.1-2 mvtnorm_0.9-8
[7] lattice_0.17-26 RcmdrPlugin.sos_0.1-0 RcmdrPlugin.Export_0.3-0
[10] Hmisc_3.7-0 survival_2.35-7 xtable_1.5-6
[13] Rcmdr_1.5-4 car_1.2-16 relimp_1.0-1
[16] sos_1.1-7 brew_1.0-3 hints_1.0.1-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.12.1