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

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Dec 3 10:34:31 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> E.G. if we support bash/coreutils/.., then we should really support
 >> them.

 > I definitely agree with this last part, but I don't see how "really
 > supporting them" conflicts with the idea of hiding them by default to
 > avoid having newcomers confused by these.

It's mainly about when the featureset significantly differs between
busybox and the "full" variant. The question if the busybox version is
"good enough" unfortunately is quite system/use case dependent.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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