[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] coreutils: belongs to system tools, not development

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 12/03/2013 05:08 AM, Jeremy Rosen wrote:

> I personally don't know exactly what busybox provides, this option is
> a simple way to make sure I don't compile any useless stuff...
> 
> I'm in favor of keeping it or provide another way to find duplicates

Sometimes the busybox version is short of features and you need the full
version even when keeping busybox around.
With that being said you sometimes want to avoid the opposite too. On
this patchset i've found there are many of the big packages required
(and needed fixing) to get a nice (no warnings or error messages)
booting system with the default skeleton, OTOH: coreutils, util-linux,
some shell (bash), sysvinit, sysklogd, linux-pam (inherent for util-linux).
And with those we still get a warning from util-linux's hostname not
being feature complete (oh the irony, busybox hostname is, we need
net-tools to replace it).
And we're still lacking ifup/ifdown :)
Regards.