Re: busybox

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

"K. Richard Pixley" <rich.pixley@access-company.com> writes:

> If there a reason why busybox should not be packaged in such a way as
> to provide a mutually exclusive alternative with the packages that it
> supplants such as coreutils?

It doesn't supplant them. The busybox package installs exactly one
executable: '/usr/bin/busybox'.

It *can* supplant coreutils commands, if the existing commands are
overridden as a link to that binary; but that's not what happens when
installing 'busybox', so there's no necessary conflict.

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