Re: Installer online help

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Mon Jun 11, 2001 at 10:29:33AM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> 
> >  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

Oh, thats right. 
I wonder if I should trim out some of the fat in the .deb then.
For example, the .deb contains the busybox shell (lash), which 
is not being used...  I expect a bit of hunting could find a
fw others.

 -Erik

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