[yocto] Removing busybox

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Feb 27 13:49:02 PST 2019


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 21:41, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> It is not obvious to me what usecases people have in mind for
> getting rid of busybox, and whether everyone is aware that
> something like "all busybox commands replaced" is *very*
> expensive regarding filesystem size.

Considering many of the people who are trying to not install a single
byte of busybox are also installing toybox, the GPL is often the
reason.  Not sure how to square that with also using Linux though...

Ross


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