From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:32:53 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] coreutils: belongs to system tools, not development In-Reply-To: <529DAFA0.9030903@zacarias.com.ar> (Gustavo Zacarias's message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:17:04 -0300") References: <1707580650.15811727.1386058098089.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> <529DAFA0.9030903@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <87pppens16.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias 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