Thread: [Announce] Enhanced BusyBox package
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ivgalvez is offline ivgalvez
2012-08-27 , 07:18
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#286
Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
replacing busybox by busybox-power eats rare precious space in rootfs (due to larger binary size of busybox-power), since busybox is needed during early boot and thus has to live in rootfs. I.E. it can't get optified.
Busybox-power however doesn't - by default - bring anything new that might justify indiscriminate waste of rootfs space for it, on all CSSU installs.
It's absolutely reasonable to keep busybox-power optional for those users who think they need it and want to accept the rootfs penalty it comes with.

/j
500 Kb of rootfs is by no means a valid reason to ban busybox-power from CSSU. And if rootfs space was so important to even care so much about 500 Kb, we should then jump right now to Thumb2 to fix that incredibly important limitation.

You have commented a lot of times that CSSU is here to provide updates and fixes for packages that can't be distributed via Extras. OK, then busybox-power, that can't be really distributed in a very clean way (it needs to replace original binary!!), is a perfect example of something that should be distributed by CSSU. Otherwise, you could argue that everything can be distributed providing binary replacements instead of upgrading packages (let's include Qt4.7.4 in Extras as a substitution of .so files!!).

If busybox-power is in Extras, it's simply because it was packaged before CSSU started. It was such an important need for users that it was one the first replacements to original Nokia software. Also it comes with tons of fixes not available in CSSU, not simply new features.
Last edited by ivgalvez; 2012-08-27 at 09:08.
 

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