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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Nuke
From:       Sven-Göran_Bergh <sgb-list+busybox () systemaxion ! se>
Date:       2021-01-06 8:17:12
Message-ID: dce330ef-194b-35fc-f5b3-9d3afab30ca8 () systemaxion ! se
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On 2021-01-04 17:24, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> 
> On 1/3/21 4:31 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:56 AM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 6/20/20 7:26 AM, Mike Davies wrote:
>>>> So whos brilliant idea was it to select 'nuke' to be built by default ?
>>
>> Almost all options are "on" by default.
>> There should be a special reason (documented in a comment)
>> why option is off by default (e.g. "non-standard behavior"
>> or "some common libc don't have necessary defines / functions
>> to compile it").
>>
> 
> Just a quick question in general: why is this applet needed anyway, and 
> where does it come from? It does not seem to be part of any sane linux 
> distribution I've ever heard and I don't really see any point in it.
> 
> If someone for any strange reason really needs a shortcut to "\rm -rf 
> /", he might set an alias. I'm quite sure 99% of busybox users have no 
> use for it.
> 

+1

/S-G
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