On Sat, 27 Aug 2016, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > This thing is meant for people who are in real squeeze and don't want > any more functionality than they absolutely must have. > > If they configured 20 applets they need and they prepare their filesystem > so that the /bin/foo -> /bin/busybox links are created by means > other than busybox --install, they don't need the code which says this: > > BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2015. > Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed > copyright notices. > > Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...] > or: busybox --list[-full] > or: busybox --install [-s] [DIR] > or: function [arguments]... > > BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix > utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a > link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox > will act like whatever it was invoked as. > > It's just useless bloat for them. Now they can switch it off.
Got it, thanks. But it's not only that text that's removed. The "Currently defined functions:" list is also gone, as well as the one-applet-per-line list. I do understand those might be considered bloat too, but that was not intuitive for me. > OTOH, you do want that code to be present. Thus, please turn > CONFIG_BUSYBOX=y. Yes, we can ;) Cheers, -- Cristian _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
