Re: busybox + python questions

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 18:36, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> The default configuration of busybox (1.1.3) installs a /bin/bb executable
> to which nothing apparently is linked. I renamed it, played with a few
> applets and so far nothing is broken. What is that bb for?

it's a standalone static rescue shell

broken system ?  boot with init=/bin/bb

> I am discovering that python is really not something I might want installed
> on a small system. The base package is about 22MB on disk. 2/3 of that it
> seems are pyc and pyo files. Plus there are quite a few packages I don't
> anticipate needing. Can we reduce that footprint? Or do I have to give up
> on python?

it's your system so only you know if you really need python

in terms of Gentoo, if you dont want to run portage on the target, then by 
default there's not much point in having python
-mike

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