[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] coreutils: allow selection of installed programs

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Feb 24 22:19:30 UTC 2016


Peter, All,

On 2016-02-24 22:58 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> >> How about adding a more lightweight option to the coreutils package to
>  >> disable the single-binary mode?
> 
>  > Yes, that is a great ides, maybe a choice like:
>  >     choice
>  >         bool "Single-binary mode"
>  >         default BR2_PKG_COREUTILS_SINGLE_SYMLINKS
>  >     config BR2_PKG_COREUTILS_SINGLE_NONE
>  >         bool "none"
>  >     config BR2_PKG_COREUTILS_SINGLE_SYMLINKS
>  >         bool "symlinks"
>  >     config BR2_PKG_COREUTILS_SINGLE_SHEBANGS
>  >         bool "shebangs"
>  >     endchoice
>  > And the corresponding code in the .mk file, of course.
> 
> Didn't we just discuss on IRC that shebangs didn't have any advantages
> over symlinks? If so, I would prefer to keep things simple and only have
> a choice between symlinks (default) or classical multiple binaries.

Well, shebangs is the current situation, so users may rely on it (for
whatever ill reason), so we should support that.

However, I won't battle over it, as my preference would go with hardlinks
instead, but that option is not available. Meh... ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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