[adelie-devel]Re: The future of BusyBox in Adélie

From: A. Wilcox <awilfox_at_adelielinux.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:58:11 -0600

On 09/16/18 17:53, A. Wilcox wrote:
> == Move to user/ ==
> [...]
>
> == Remove ==
>
> Considering the brokenness[1][2][3] of BusyBox, we could remove it from
> the repositories entirely. We may be able to compile a static coreutils
> for recovery.
>
>
> == Replace with Toybox ==
> [...]
>
>
>
> [1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/busybox(a)busybox.net/msg25157.html
>
> [2]: https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/9279
>
> [3]: https://da.gd/buggybox
>
>


And removal is exactly what is happening to it.

Best,
--arw

-- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org

Received on Sun Feb 24 2019 - 01:13:27 UTC