On 2020-04-05 19:45, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for > rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme > limitations. There's not really any reason to remove this, but if you > insist...
As for rescue scenarios, that has been obsolete for a long time. For at least 10 years now, whenever I need to rescue myself I boot from a separate medium that is normally offline, a CD, an SD card or a thumb drive. And I did the same even when I had an initramfs. And this is a desktop. BTW, I'm curious - are there really embedded systems, especially ones with extreme limitations, running gentoo? > Read more about profiles at [1]; a guide to making custom profiles can > be found as a subsection. Indeed, profiles are a big hole in my gentoo knowledge. Thanks for the pointer. > If you really don't want to have Portage install BusyBox, see the > --exclude option of emerge. But again, there's really no need to > remove BusyBox unless you're _very_ short on disk space. The true reason I want to avoid it is that portage keeps spamming me about the configuration - handled by saveconfig or something. It happens every time it is rebuild and I don't know how to stop it. BTW, I found why app-editor/nano is different. It is not part of the profile set itself, it is just that it happens to satisfy virtual/editor which is in the profile set. virtuals are another area which I need to study, sigh -- Ian
