Re: finer grained udeb's?

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> On Fri Jan 19, 2001 at 04:17:43PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > > > While working on support for dhclient in debian-installer I noticed that
> > > > busybox will need to have 'expr' added. I wonder how this should be handled.
> > > > I guess it makes sense to add 'expr' since it is only a few k, and so far pump
> > > > hasn't worked for me (could still be user error at this point.), but at some
> > > > point we may see that busybox needs to be more modular?
> > > >
> > > Its hard and maybe counterproductive to break up busybox, it would be
> > > best if built busybox with everything we needed from the start.
> >
> > Yeah, I agree with Glenn. Breaking up busybox doesn't tend to save
> > space.
> 
> Agreed.  We just need to pick the desired feature set.  If there are any apps
> that need to be enabled in busybox, just ask.
> 
> Is it agreed then I should turn on expr?  Know of anything else in the
> should-be-enabled list?
> 

dpkg-deb :)