[maemo-developers] busybox applet selection (again)

[From: Kalle Valo]

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

> On 1/2/08, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo at nokia.com> wrote:
>> I have to agree with Eero here. It's much more useful to have the
>> original tools available instead of (too) simple busybox variants.
>
> what I'm suggesting would be an optional package that, if set up correctly,
> won't break anything (but will block the installation of overlapping tools
> in other packages). Users who want original tool sets could take the
> standard busybox package and install separate tools packages. If having the
> original tools is always better perhaps busybox shouldn't be used at all?

That's what Eero is proposing here: disable certain tools, for example
ping, from busybox and install the "full" versions, for example
iputils-ping.

>> example, you need to be root to run busybox ping and it does not
>> support flood ping.
>
> for good or bad the root problem is overcome with
> # chmod 4777 /bin/busybox

I'm not even going to comment on that.

>> Having iputils-ping would fix both of these
>> problems.
>
> why not take all of iputils?

Sure, if there is a need. ping was just an example.

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Kalle Valo