On Friday 09 February 2007, Ned Ludd wrote: > baselayout is only about a half of a meg these days and probably > getting smaller/faster with the addition of the multicall rc/runscript > work he has been doing. > > Adding bash also requires ncurses which in turn mostly requires having > a c++ aware compiler or using the nocxx,minimal flags. Even with those > flags enabled I'm seeing 3M going to ncurses+bash. So I can for sure > see the benefits. > > Also for a moment lets stop and think. Some XYZ update breaks > ncurses/bash. Supporting this gives us a nice alternative way to still > boot our boxes for rescue using ash or another shell which might not > have such big deps.
From where I stand I can see Ned's point just fine: I'm interested in both having a sane baselayout that doesn't break on bash upgrade (I've seen the breakage with 3.1, 3.2.. I also masked bash 3.1 while Roy fixed baselayout for that version), and in a baselayout that can run on medium embedded systems (and not just "for fun", trust me), so I wouldn't dismiss Roy's work as "unneeded" and/or not useful to anyone. He's not going to waste someone else's time, and as he said there will be compatibility with current configuration files, I don't think there's any downside to users. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
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