[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] coreutils: allow selection of installed programs

[Yann E. MORIN]

Romain, Peter, All,

On 2016-02-25 11:59 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Romain" == Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro at gmail.com> writes:
> >> However, I won't battle over it, as my preference would go with
>  >> hardlinks instead, but that option is not available. Meh... ;-)
>  > The issue is that the single binary mode is much more space-efficient
>  > than the classical mode. For my subset of 52 executables, it takes 704
>  > KiB for the single-binary mode with shebangs, and 1.9 MiB with separate
>  > programs (after stripping). I get a similar ratio if I compress it.
> 
>  > The classical mode is in fact worse than taking the coreutils package
>  > without filtering, which takes 1.5 MiB.
> 
> Crap, so that's no option then. I'll think some more about it.

OK, so we're back to Thomas' initial proposal: provide a single string
option that the user can set to the list of programs he wants:

    config BR2_PKG_COREUTILS_PROGRAMS
        bool "install programs"
        help
          List the programs you want. Leave empty to install all.  

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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