On Thu, 2021-09-09 at 15:47 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > --- > 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
I fully support this +1
