Re: Installer online help

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:51:43AM -0600 wrote:
> On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 02:52:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW busybox does have better help if you turn it on :
> > bb with very little help:
> > -rwxr-xr-x root/root    180316 2001-06-10 14:22:28 ./bin/busybox
> > 
> > bb with better help:
> > -rwxr-xr-x root/root    195804 2001-06-10 14:29:32 ./bin/busybox
> > 
> > That is more space than what you are proposing, but it does involve a bit of
> > duplication of effort and maintenance.  I don't feel strongly either way.
> 
> Which arch is this?
x86

>  On x86:
> 	    
>     [root@slag busybox_udeb_builddir]# ll ./busybox.help
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       148988 Jun 11 10:48 ./busybox.help*
>     [root@slag busybox_udeb_builddir]# ll ./busybox.orig
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       136188 Jun 11 10:47 ./busybox.orig*
> 
> So on x86, enabling BB_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE adds 12.5k, and brings the
> busybox.udeb binary to 145k.

We're talking about boot-floppies, I thought, boot floppies uses the .deb

-David