coreutils instructions

Bruce Dubbs bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 12:15:43 MDT 2009


Dan Nicholson wrote:

> A while back I sanitized the bootscripts for POSIX sh compatibility,
> and I think DJ has been maintaining that goal. I think it's a nice
> (and obtainable) goal to target since having sh != bash can save on
> bloat.

Save on bloat?  For what?  My copy of bash is 500K.  dash is about 80K.  The 
smallest HD you can get now is about 100G.  The savings is about 0.0004% of the 
disk.

Unless you are doing something that requires busybox for an extremely small non 
standard LFS installation, then it's a non-issue.

   -- Bruce


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