thoughts on reorganizing BB menuconfig structure?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:39, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   the biggest problem, i think, is the arbitrary grouping of so many
> entries under "Coreutils", "Linux System Utilities" and "Miscellaneous
> Utilities."  some thoughts (some large, some small):

the groupings arent arbitrary, they correspond to the actual upstream packages

> * drop "Debian Utilities" entirely and spread those entries elsewhere

the utilities come from the upstream debian utils package

> * move "dmesg" to "Logging Utilities"?

dmesg comes from the upstream util-linux packge

> * i don't consider "ar" to be an "Archival Utility".  i see it more as
> a Development utility.  how many people are actually using "ar" for
> archiving?

it shares a lot of code with other archival utilities ... plus, it *is* an 
archival utility, mostly implemented to manipulate the .deb package format

> * how about an entire section devoted to "Shell Applets"?  by that,
> i mean applets normally used, say, for shell programming:
>
>   true, false, echo, expr, getopt, dirname, basename, length, env,
>   printenv, printf, and lots more.
>
>   that would cut down the size of "Coreutils" considerably.

except that all of these utilities come from the upstream "coreutils" package
-mike