[BusyBox] tinylogin

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Mon Aug 20 01:28:12 UTC 2001


Goetz Bock wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 19 '01 at 02:43, Per Wigren wrote:
> > Why isn't tinylogin integrated into busybox? Wouldn't it save a whole bunch
> > of bytes to have it integrated instead of separate?
> This comes up every once in a while and AFAIK the answer is:
> 
> While it would save quite some bytes, it is not the aim of busybox to be
> used for a regular system, but rather for a setup disk. For a setup disk
> tinylogins functionality is not needed.

1) Slackware have agetty+login in setup disk.
2) Opportunities busybox are much wider, than setup disk.


--w
vodz





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