What's up with e2fsprogs?

[Bernhard Fischer]

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.