[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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