Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#15 new enhancement
make profile for super-light-weight system
| Reported by: | jrollins | Owned by: | dkg |
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| Priority: | minor | Component: | debirf |
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Description
maybe we should add a busybox plugin that will install busybox and purge all packages that busybox can handle. i notice that busybox appears to be installed by default now.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by jrollins
- Summary changed from busybox plugin to make busybox plugin
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by dkg
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by jrollins
- Summary changed from make busybox plugin to make profile for super-light-weight system
Yea, this is only a suggestion for making a super light-weight system. in fact, i think i'll change the title of this ticket to reflect that.
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The problem with this is that busybox's implementations of standard utilities are severely limited in a number of ways
It would be good to make an implementation like this, but mainly because of the small size. Perhaps you'd only need busybox, its dependent libraries, the modules associated with the kernel of choice, module-init-tools, aptitude, and iproute. That might be enough to be a tiny system that could then be bootstrapped to whatever you want, but i'm not sure.
It would be pretty far from a full-fledged debian system, though.