On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 08:10:12 -0500 Rob Landley said : > On 8/7/19 10:59 AM, enh wrote: > > and if the next stage in your personal "surely this can't be true?" > > journey is the same as mine, the answer i got from our init > > maintainer for the "why?" is that the kernel doesn't want to have > > an opinion on permissions etc. (they pointed out that Android's > > setup actually reduces the size of the window compared to the > > desktop.) > > I remember the lwn.net argument, but I thought they _did_ merge > default permissions in? (I remember the argument but not the > resolution...) > > Looks like permissions went in: https://lwn.net/Articles/353849/ > > Ah, I see what happened to ownership: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/546464/ > > It was submitted to the kernel by a bad messenger: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/05/torvalds_sievers_dust_up/ > > (Who of course went on to become one of the core devs of systemd. > Which is why I'm using devuan.)
Now that you mention it Devuan has a busybox package, via Debian, but no toybox package. If we want to do something about that the question becomes - do we push it into Debian, or push it into Devuan? I might be able to help with the later. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
