On 08/11/2011, at 6:21 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > [snip]
> P.S. If you wonder why I despair of busybox's "throw another app on the > fire, it can't hurt anything" approach... doing more than necessary is > bad. Busybox now has 348 apps. Is there really a good excuse for > smemcap not being a shell script, same for envdir? Why do we have > devmem? envuidgid is probably obsoleted by containers, which busybox > has no support for, but now we have to support this old thing forever. > (Yes forever: we still haven't removed mt.) AND envuidgid does > something chpst also does, We have uuencode _and_ base64? We have > killall _and_ killall5? Why add-shell (at all)? Why isn't dhcprelay a > function of udhcpd? (They SIMPLIFY UDHCPD already.) Is wall really a > modern tool? Doesn't "alias" exist for things like hd? And so on... > > I miss "simple". The current busybox may be many things (trying to be > all things to all people), but it's not simple. I would like to see the inverse of EXPERIMENTAL. Perhaps OBSOLETE, ARCHAIC, RARE or UNCOMMON which hides less common options to make it easier to configure from scratch. But I would still like to be able to enable those options by editing the .config file directly. Not sure if Kconfig can do that though. -- µWeb: Embedded Web Framework - http://uweb.workware.net.au/ WorkWare Systems Pty Ltd W: www.workware.net.au P: +61 434 921 300 E: [email protected] F: +61 7 3391 6002 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
