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energyman76b
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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: replace coreutils and others with busybox? |
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Hi,
is it possible on a (KDE) desktop to replace coreutils, sed and others with busybox? It is installed anyway - and I really don't need the more arcane options of sed or hdparm.
My biggest concern, does the gentoo init-files work with busybox? And portage? Or does portage need functionality busybox does not include?
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| Code: | mark@tyrone ~ $ equery depends coreutils
[ Searching for packages depending on coreutils... ]
app-admin/eselect-1.0.10 (sys-apps/coreutils)
sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc2-r1 (!build & !bootstrap & kernel_linux? >=sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1)
sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.5 (userland_GNU? >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.4) |
Don't think you will have much luck in removing coreutils. Baselayout2 should be able to boot with busybox as its shell, but that doesn't mean you can remove coreutils from your computer.
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Hm, I should be able to work around the depends with package.provided?
My question is not so much 'what depends on coreutils because ebuild says so' but 'what depends on coreutils/sed/awk/... that would totally break with busybox'?
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You are welcome to test out if portage lives without coreutils, but better try it in a chroot so you don't break your system 
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| mark_alec wrote: | | You are welcome to test out if portage lives without coreutils, but better try it in a chroot so you don't break your system |
yeah, I think I wait for the weekend and have a nice ,complete rescue-cd in the drive - just in case
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| I won't rule it out completely that a system may work witout coreutils, but I'd consider it very unlikely that busybox implements all features used by portage, ebuilds and other regular system apps. |
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| Genone wrote: | | I won't rule it out completely that a system may work witout coreutils, but I'd consider it very unlikely that busybox implements all features used by portage, ebuilds and other regular system apps. |
yeah, that is what I am afraid of. I will quickpkg everything important and have a rescue-cd ready - just in case.
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well, I moved almost everything in from /bin into a backup dir and created symlinks to busybox.
I mounted and umounted a cdrom, emerged mbuffer, so far so good.
On reboot:
complaint about unknown options with ps, mount and sleept.
hung at alsasound and smartd
I moved everything back
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