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On Friday 09 February 2007, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> baselayout is only about a half of a meg these days and probably |
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> getting smaller/faster with the addition of the multicall rc/runscript |
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> work he has been doing. |
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> Adding bash also requires ncurses which in turn mostly requires having |
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> a c++ aware compiler or using the nocxx,minimal flags. Even with those |
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> flags enabled I'm seeing 3M going to ncurses+bash. So I can for sure |
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> see the benefits. |
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> Also for a moment lets stop and think. Some XYZ update breaks |
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> ncurses/bash. Supporting this gives us a nice alternative way to still |
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> boot our boxes for rescue using ash or another shell which might not |
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> have such big deps. |
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From where I stand I can see Ned's point just fine: I'm interested in both |
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having a sane baselayout that doesn't break on bash upgrade (I've seen the |
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breakage with 3.1, 3.2.. I also masked bash 3.1 while Roy fixed baselayout |
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for that version), and in a baselayout that can run on medium embedded |
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systems (and not just "for fun", trust me), so I wouldn't dismiss Roy's work |
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as "unneeded" and/or not useful to anyone. |
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He's not going to waste someone else's time, and as he said there will be |
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compatibility with current configuration files, I don't think there's any |
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downside to users. |
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-- |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
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