busybox[static] was added to @system as a system recovery tool. If the system is in such a state that a static shell is needed for recovery, it is likely that remote access is also broken, and the sysadmin will need to log into a console. At that point, they could boot from recovery media anyway.
Also, stage3 tarballs are often used to build containers, where having a recovery tool installed is completely pointless. Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> --- profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/packages b/profiles/default/linux/packages index d0b8745d044..6d35bf72e20 100644 --- a/profiles/default/linux/packages +++ b/profiles/default/linux/packages @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Copyright 2004-2015 Gentoo Foundation. +# Copyright 2004-2021 Gentoo Authors. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # This file extends the base packages file for the default profile that all @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ # will have. Some will have an selinux profile (see ${PORTDIR}/profiles/selinux). # The idea is to only create a new family of profiles when absolutely necessary. -*sys-apps/busybox *sys-apps/iproute2 *sys-apps/man-pages *sys-apps/net-tools -- 2.33.0