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On Wednesday 09 August 2006 18:36, Philippe Clérié wrote: |
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> The default configuration of busybox (1.1.3) installs a /bin/bb executable |
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> to which nothing apparently is linked. I renamed it, played with a few |
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> applets and so far nothing is broken. What is that bb for? |
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it's a standalone static rescue shell |
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broken system ? boot with init=/bin/bb |
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> I am discovering that python is really not something I might want installed |
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> on a small system. The base package is about 22MB on disk. 2/3 of that it |
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> seems are pyc and pyo files. Plus there are quite a few packages I don't |
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> anticipate needing. Can we reduce that footprint? Or do I have to give up |
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> on python? |
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it's your system so only you know if you really need python |
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in terms of Gentoo, if you dont want to run portage on the target, then by |
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default there's not much point in having python |
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-mike |
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