[yocto] Removing busybox

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 02:27:37PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 12:05 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 05:20, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > > > That's a good start.  For a oe-core packagegroup
> > > 
> > > I do not think a core-only packagegroup makes sense when the goal
> > > is to
> > > completely replace busybox (and not just most apps while keeping a
> > > few
> > > busybox apps installed).
> > 
> > But a "close enough" packagegroup in core would be a good starting
> > point.
> > 
> > > > I'd suggest dropping
> > > > dnsmasq bridgeutils bindutils to keep it lean.
> > > 
> > > The stated usecases are not "lean" but "replace all busybox
> > > commands
> > > with the full versions".
> > > 
> > > For that you need bind-utils (in oe-core) for DNS lookup.
> > 
> > Good point well made.
> > > > Also swap vim for something in core obviously.
> > > 
> > > It is not obvious how to do that.
> > > 
> > > What other vi implementation is in core?
> > > Is there even any good non-busybox non-GUI editor in core?
> > > Replacing busybox vi with ed would be a bad fit for the
> > > stated usecases.
> > > 
> > > There has to be some vi implementation installed,
> > > and the "desktop command" implementation is vim.
> > 
> > I thought we had some other editor in core, but can't see one.  Worse
> > case we still use busybox for its vi... :)
> 
> This could be an argument for pulling a small number of things into OE-
> Core too...

Moving the vim recipe (which doesn't have further depends) over and then
putting VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim and ?= "vim-tiny" in this packagegroup
should be flexible enough, yes?

-- 
Tom
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