Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@×××.net>
To: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o, base-system@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Re: portage profiles for alternatives (uclibc)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:01:59
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0406120649230.7777-100000@lnx.bridge.intra
1 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Aron Griffis wrote:
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3 > Peter S. Mazinger wrote: [Thu Jun 10 2004, 05:07:02AM EDT]
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5 > > 6. busybox currently could replace partially
6 > > gawk/sed/tar/cpio/findutils/coreutils/grep,
7 > > debianutils/kbd/procps/psmisc/gzip/bzip2/which/patch/nano(vi)/modutils/
8 > > diffutils/sharutils/sash/iputils/wget/util-linux/net-tools/fbset
9 > > instead of less it could use more, w/ some shell script to support the
10 > > less flags, so all these are candidates for virtual
11 > > (it does not have all of the utilities, only a minimal set of it in most
12 > > cases)
13 >
14 > You can't use busybox to replace most of these and still build a
15 > system. The ebuilds often depend (I don't mean DEPEND) on the
16 > specific behavior and features of the GNU versions. The busybox
17 > implementation would have to be perfect in order for this to work.
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19 I do not want to replace them now, because much needs testing, but prepare
20 to switch, when the time comes, for ex bzip2 after 1.00 (and many of the
21 apps have smaller alternatives, not only busybox)
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23 Peter
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