[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] busybox: ncurses progs equiv as default

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 20-04-17 15:01, Matthew Weber wrote:
> Baruch,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:13:28PM -0500, Matt Weber wrote:
>>> By default, enable the busybox equivalents of the ncurses
>>> clear and reset if ncurses progs are not enabled.
>>
>> Our default busybox.config enables these applets. If the user chooses to
>> disable them in a custom config, why should we force them back on?
>>
> 
> True, I was thinking the use case of build time changing (then doing
> incremental build)if you use ncurses progs vs not and forcing the
> busybox reconfig to have it update the target folder respectively.

 This is a use case we certainly don't want to support. On the other hand, we
*do* want to support the use case where the user has a custom busybox config,
doesn't have ncurses, and doesn't want to have clear and reset in his system.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> I agree this isn't' ideal for all situations, but with these being
> terminal tools, would/should you ever turn them off and the amount of
> code is small?
> 
> Other discussion related to this:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/750264/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/750721/
> 
> -Matt
> 

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