[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] busybox: preserve ncurses progs/tools

[Danomi Manchego]

Thomas,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:00:32 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
>>  This is the correct approach I think. I think we could also do this for all the
>> other cases where we have a -> busybox dependency just because they install the
>> same apps.
>
> Yes, I'm also wondering if it isn't better to disable the Busybox
> applets (like Matt does in this patch for ncurses) rather then
> overwriting the symlinks.
>
> First of all, overwriting the symlinks means that if you "make
> busybox-reinstall", you no longer get the right thing (for sure, we
> never guarantee that partial builds/rebuilds give the correct output,
> but it's nice when they do).

Actually, I think this situation is prevented by "busybox: enable
noclobber option in install.sh",
https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=802bff9c42376078f28aa49d3eab630120940eb0

But of course, the bloat factor is there regardless.

Danomi -

> And then of course, it means that there is
> code in Busybox, consuming some space, that is never used.
>
> The only annoyance that I can see is a potential blotification of
> busybox.mk, with lots of conditional for various packages.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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