From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:30:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] coreutils: allow selection of installed programs In-Reply-To: <87y4a9vyw1.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1454498088-20233-1-git-send-email-romain.izard.pro@gmail.com> <877fhxaf7l.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <56CE1E61.7000008@zacarias.com.ar> <20160224214832.GA3449@free.fr> <87r3g1zs67.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160224221930.GB3449@free.fr> <87y4a9vyw1.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20160225193037.GA5870@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Romain, Peter, All, On 2016-02-25 11:59 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly: > >>>>> "Romain" == Romain Izard writes: > >> However, I won't battle over it, as my preference would go with > >> hardlinks instead, but that option is not available. Meh... ;-) > > The issue is that the single binary mode is much more space-efficient > > than the classical mode. For my subset of 52 executables, it takes 704 > > KiB for the single-binary mode with shebangs, and 1.9 MiB with separate > > programs (after stripping). I get a similar ratio if I compress it. > > > The classical mode is in fact worse than taking the coreutils package > > without filtering, which takes 1.5 MiB. > > Crap, so that's no option then. I'll think some more about it. OK, so we're back to Thomas' initial proposal: provide a single string option that the user can set to the list of programs he wants: config BR2_PKG_COREUTILS_PROGRAMS bool "install programs" help List the programs you want. Leave empty to install all. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'