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


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