From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:08:14 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/10] busybox: support only one version In-Reply-To: <20140710171848.75381ecb@free-electrons.com> References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1404237789-15563-11-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87oawxntvt.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20140710171848.75381ecb@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <53C2E72E.1090703@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10/07/14 17:18, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:57:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >> > I wonder if time also hasn't come to get rid of >> > BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS? > I don't know. We've been discussing multiple times the SHOW_OTHERS > thing, and I believe each time our conclusion was that it's nice for > beginners to have Buildroot hide the applications for which Busybox > already provides a good alternative. I'm sure if we remove > SHOW_OTHERS, we'll have gazillions of newcomers enabling bash, > util-linux and millions of other things that aren't needed when you > have Busybox. So I still believe that SHOW_OTHERS is a good thing to > have. I disagree with this analysis. A newcomer who doesn't know about busybox will most likely not know about coreutils, util-linux, etc. either. The only thing that I can imagine that they would enable is bash. And to be honest, that's the first thing I do when I build a system with more than 4MB of flash to spare... So, for me it would be enough to indicate that a package has an equivalent in busybox. E.g.: util-linux (also in busybox) bash (busybox provides ash) Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F