[BusyBox] suggestion for 'better' busybox

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:42:29 +0100
wim delvaux <wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> As devoted opie developer I would like to suggest some enhancements for the 
> busybox tool.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 2. Other commands (those from /usr/sbin/ and /usr/bin) are pushed out of the 
> executable into shared libraries that are dynamically loaded into the busybox 
> executable.  each 'plugin' is an independent little package and can be 
> installed or not.

I don't like this idea and I think applets is the way to go.
But I have another suggestion which may fits your need.

It would be nice to have a new config option which would enable every
possible features and add some statistics code in busybox. This options
would only be useful during development. The busybox statistics code
would log in a file each applets usage statistics. So you could use all
the features of your system with this busybox build, and at the end of
the session, you would have a log file which tell you which applets are
not used at all, and which one are only used a few times (so that they
may eventually be replaced by other commands).
We could then even have a script which convert this log file in busybox
.config with minimal needed feature set.

Aurel