[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] coreutils: belongs to system tools, not development

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> writes:

 > On 12/03/2013 05:08 AM, Jeremy Rosen wrote:
 >> I personally don't know exactly what busybox provides, this option is
 >> a simple way to make sure I don't compile any useless stuff...
 >> 
 >> I'm in favor of keeping it or provide another way to find duplicates

 > Sometimes the busybox version is short of features and you need the full
 > version even when keeping busybox around.

Exactly, like we're hiding bash/zsh even though the differences from
busybox ash are pretty huge. Same for syslogd/sysvinit or vim.

 > With that being said you sometimes want to avoid the opposite too. On
 > this patchset i've found there are many of the big packages required
 > (and needed fixing) to get a nice (no warnings or error messages)
 > booting system with the default skeleton, OTOH: coreutils, util-linux,
 > some shell (bash), sysvinit, sysklogd, linux-pam (inherent for util-linux).
 > And with those we still get a warning from util-linux's hostname not
 > being feature complete (oh the irony, busybox hostname is, we need
 > net-tools to replace it).
 > And we're still lacking ifup/ifdown :)

Which relate to the point about these options not getting a lot of
testing.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard