[maemo-developers] busybox applet selection (again)

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Damien Moore" <damienlmoore at gmail.com> writes:

> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989
>
> the bug was marked WONTFIX
>
> Eero Tamminen's resolution was to not add any additional applets to
> BusyBox because in his opinion those needs can best be met by creating
> full versions of the tools in separate packages. I don't think this is
> a good idea because it creates a proliferation of unnecessarily
> bloated packages with the attendant problems of maintaining multiple
> packages (keeping in mind that the target hardware is a capacity
> constrained tablet). The benefit of busybox is that most appplets add
> just a few kb to the binary size and all of them sit inside a single
> binary.

I have to agree with Eero here. It's much more useful to have the
original tools available instead of (too) simple busybox variants. For
example, you need to be root to run busybox ping and it does not
support flood ping. Having iputils-ping would fix both of these
problems.

-- 
Kalle Valo