busybox current status

[Erik Hovland]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:04:04PM +0100, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> RFC for deprecation:
> 
> * e2fsprogs are not maintained and generally shouldn't be
>   in bbox in my opinion. Also they are very large:
>   text+data text+rodata    rwdata       bss filename
>       79939       79779       160       504 e2fsprogs/e2fsck.o
>       10261       10245        16      1092 e2fsprogs/mke2fs.o
>        7319        7319         0       348 e2fsprogs/fsck.o
>        6226        6210        16       142 e2fsprogs/tune2fs.o
>   (full bbox is ~900k. e2fsprogs are ~10% of that)
>   Maybe lsattr/chattr can stay...
> * Are we sure our hdparm doesn't suffer from the
>   bugs? lack of new features?
>   text+data text+rodata    rwdata       bss filename
>       21744       21744         0       852 miscutils/hdparm.o

I would agree with you hartily if you deprecated both of these items. In
familiar we use the original implementations for our packaging and don't
use the busybox version.

> * telnetd probably needs the same love as httpd (-i,-f)

What about deprecating telnetd? I know, scandalous talk.

> * New applets: hose/faucet? ssh[d]? :)

I would leave this to dropbear. Matt does a pretty good job with that
code.

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