Re: [PATCH] Get rid of cat and grep

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

David Dillow wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 14:21 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Just because the scripts don't use it, doesn't mean it doesn't have
>> value in the initramfs.  Being dropped to a rescue shell and not
>> being able to cat files for diagnostics is sort of annoying.
> 
> So build cat as a shell function :)
> 
> More seriously, I agree it is helpful to have some tools available when
> trying to debug, or develop dracut. But when I move this into production
> in a cluster here, I'm going to want my image as lean as I can get it.
> 
> What do you think of making a module, say 99useful-tools, what installs
> various tools that would be helpful, and have it installed by default.
> That way, it is easy to have the best of both worlds.

Not quite. Since 99useful-tools (or 95debug come to that) would have to 
be pulled in as a dependency if your module-scripts use tools from there.

debugging on the console: yes, I agree completely. Inside scripts: 
Please use only if there's no other (readable) way.
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