svn commit: trunk/busybox: coreutils include

[Jason Schoon]

<large, mostly unproductive disagreement deleted>

I would like to throw in my take/suggestions on this situation.  I think
Busybox would be taking a large step backward by no longer providing a DHCP
client and server.  I personally use alternate versions of each, but I know
there is a very large percentage of the Busybox audience who use and love
udhcp.  Much like tinylogin (which I do use), many were very glad to see
these commonly used packages included with Busybox.

Here is where my suggestion starts.  Why don't we add udhcp back into the
tree, and busybox-ify the heck out of it?  Worst case, you are still better
off than having no DHCP code at all.  No offense to Rob, but I would rather
have this than a quickly-written, largely untested alternate version.  As a
future ground-up replacement, sure, but not thrown in to this release.

Best case, you end up with a much smaller and more optimal version of some
fairly robust code.

The argument used to be that we didn't want to modify an external project.
Well, having a fork of our own is better than having none at all, so I say,
fork away.  It's not like we don't have our own version of countless other
packages already.

That's my take on it.  Do as you will.
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