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

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Mon Apr 24 12:40:08 UTC 2017


Arnout,

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
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> On 20-04-17 15:01, Matthew Weber wrote:
> > Baruch,
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> > 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?
> >>
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> > 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.
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>  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.

Thanks for the feedback, this was more of a RFC to tie-off my previous
patches. I'm good with it being rejected.
-Matt


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