How to know if a package requires any of busybox binaries during run-time

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:25 AM Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Kartik Thaore,
> this is the busybox mailing list and we can tell you that busybox
> should not depend on anything else than libc/libm. the other way
> around is not possible since we can not know who is using busybox,

Right, it's difficult to determine which busybox apps are actually
required in a system and which are not.

Being able to flag certain apps as deprecated (so they still work but
output a warning to syslog etc if they are used) would be a useful
feature I think.