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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: How to know if a package requires any of busybox binaries during run-time
From:       Andre McCurdy <armccurdy () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-03-11 1:41:12
Message-ID: CAJ86T=U+aSctdv65W=zT1hVzz_ZKEPVETJxbX5hSKVfJBJ5sPQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:25 AM Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Kartik Thaore,
> this is the busybox mailing list and we can tell you that busybox
> should not depend on anything else than libc/libm. the other way
> around is not possible since we can not know who is using busybox,

Right, it's difficult to determine which busybox apps are actually
required in a system and which are not.

Being able to flag certain apps as deprecated (so they still work but
output a warning to syslog etc if they are used) would be a useful
feature I think.
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