"ext Damien Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/2/08, Kalle Valo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Kalle Valo _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
