What's up with e2fsprogs?
Bernhard Fischer
rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 09:16:15 PDT 2007
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:03:00PM +0100, Ignacio García Pérez wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just noticed the e2fsprogs have been removed since 1.3.2. Ok, they're
>probably too bloated, but I don't see the point in removing the code
s/probably//
Note that the code was not yet removed.
If you want some of them in busybox, then i suggest you write _sane_
versions of them, preferably from scratch.
>when it can be easily left out during configuration.
>
>And yes, I know the old code is there in a subdirectory, but getting to
>compile it again into busybox is not trivial (requires changes to the
>root Makefile and includes/applets.h at least).
Beating the old code into shape is not a worthwhile goal nor
reasonable, IMO. YMMV.
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