[BusyBox] Busybox/tinylogin merge?

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Fri Aug 10 05:37:22 MDT 2001


Sven,

> A stupid question from a newbie to this list: why not merge tinylogin and
> busybox in one binary? The result should be an executeable smaller than
> the sum of these two standalone. The configuration of tinylogin should
> blend in busybox without big hassles. And for setting up you just have to
> configure and compile on package instead of two.

As far as I understand, the basic reason was absence of function crypt() in
uclibc though now there was I think, two old problems, 1th login=su, the second
- time and desire about inclusion. 
Generally speaking, mantainers are not interested in net, login, kernel-modules
utilities.


--w
vodz





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