From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:19:29 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] coreutils: allow selection of installed programs In-Reply-To: References: <1454498088-20233-1-git-send-email-romain.izard.pro@gmail.com> <877fhxaf7l.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <56CE1E61.7000008@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 22/02/16 05:40, Romain Izard wrote: > My issue is that I'm updating an existing system, and the application > has expensive scripts that rely on the behaviour of coreutils regarding > some options that busybox does not have. As I cannot easily change those > scripts, my goal is to try to provide the same services with an updated > rootfs. To keep everything (including wifi, bluetooth, glib and a lot > more) in less 10 MiB as it did in the past, removing even 300 KiB from > coreutils is a step in the right direction. And I though it was a better > if is was done in a clean way, instead of the ad-hoc patches I had in > the previous generation > > But if you think buildroot does not need it, I won't insist. > > Best regards, Hi Romain. How about adding a more lightweight option to the coreutils package to disable the single-binary mode? That way if all you want is 1-2 binaries you can purge the rest from a post-build script to save space, if you want more then single-binary mode makes sense to kill code duplication. Regards.