I don't think he tested his version of busybox very thoroughly. On my tablet, package management breaks *UNLESS* you take the maemo patches to busybox. (One of the patches adds a -m flag to tar that's needed by dpkg). No doubt there will be other problems too...

Now to the fun stuff: If you want to test more the more complete busybox functionality, I have packaged alternative busybox binaries based on Nokias builds of busybox 1.4.1 for OS2007 and busybox 1.6.1 for OS2008. The OS2008 deb is attached here. That and other binaries are available at:

http://garage.maemo.org/projects/busybox-test

USE THESE PACAKGES AT YOUR OWN RISK AND DON'T BOTHER UNLESS YOU ARE QUITE PREPARED TO REFLASH THE OS IF SOMETHING BREAKS (I haven't had a problem yet). I have placed replicas of the original nokia binaries on the same project page to allow you to switch back if you need to.

For those who would rather build from source, that's cool too. Just "apt-get source busybox", then copy my changelog and config-deb in the attached debian.zip to the debian folder of the busybox source. (NB: the config deb isn't quite there yet, if you dpkg-buildpackage you will be prompted for a few items). You can also download the sources from the svn at the busybox-test project page, which includes the changelog and config-deb.

Next steps:
* testing
* suggestions on applet choice and associated options
* upgrade to a newer busybox version
* hosting/persuade the maemo team to update busybox in the repo and offer a fully fledged package as an alternative install.

EDITS: various clarifications