Re: Replacing gnu tools in woody with busybox
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:08, Joey Hess wrote:
> Rajkumar S wrote:
> > Is it possible to replace all gnu tools in woody with busybox. I am
> > removing packages from LAS knoppix <http://www.localareasecurity.com/>
> > to make it still smaller. One idea is to remove all the hefty gnu tools
> > and replace it with busybox. but understandably, when I tried to remove
> > the core stuff, lots of dependency problems crop up.
> >
> > Has any one tried this before? One idea I see is to repackage busybox
> > with all correct dependencies. Any more ideas?
>
> Nope, it won't work. Many programs in debian rely on options and behavior
> only provided by the GNU tools and not by busybox.
Busybox is mostly targeted at embedded and rescue disks where you are so
pressed for space that you don't actually have many gnu packages around,
or place for package database files.
Doesn't sound like its designed for what you are planning although I am
not quite clear as to what that is.
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Micha Feigin
michf@math.tau.ac.il
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