[PATCH] add-shell, remove-shell: new applets

Alexander Shishkin virtuoso at slind.org
Tue Oct 19 23:41:16 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:33:50 -0500, Matthew Stoltenberg wrote:
> > Why do you need it? (I ask because sometimes there _is_ a valid,
> > but unknown to me, reason to have this or that tool in bbox).
> 
> I will vouch that a lot of debian based systems seem to break if you
> don't have /etc/shells setup correctly.  Several releases of
> MontaVista exhibit this behaviour.
> 
> A more useful option may be to have an optional /etc/shells file that
> a busybox install sets up with the currently included shells.  Just my
> 2 cents.

I have a debian based system as well and depending on a configuration (like,
testing/development/production/etc images) it can have different shells
installed. Besides, users may choose to install additional shells. So having
a pre-defined /etc/shells won't work in all cases.

Regards,
--
Alex


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