Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

2020-04-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > > > BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for > > rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme > > limitations. There's not really any reason to remove this, but if you > > insist... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

2020-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 12:56:13 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > The true reason I want to avoid it is that portage keeps spamming me > about the configuration - handled by saveconfig or something. It > happens every time it is rebuild and I don't know how to stop it. Read the spam, it tells you what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

2020-04-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:56:13PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > As for rescue scenarios, that has been obsolete for a long time. For at least > 10 years now It is still used in some rescue situations, for example, an initramfs panic. https://askubuntu.com/q/137655/ (This post was eight years ago

[gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

2020-04-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-04-05 19:45, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for > rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme > limitations. There's not really any reason to remove