thoughts on reorganizing BB menuconfig structure?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Friday 24 March 2006 4:34 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > ok, i see.  now it becomes clearer.
>
> I noted in the readme that we replace bzip2, coreutils, e2fsprogs,
> file, findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools,
> procps, sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim.
> (I note that this list should have gzip and patch added to it.)
>
> We don't have directories for all of those packages.

ok, so what does all this mean?  that there *is* some value in
cleaning up the BB config menus?  that there *isn't*?  i'm confused.

rday