Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command

[Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@opersys.com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:01 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
> Not sure of the mechanics on how
> this is done for the portage emerge process, but even stopping the
> emerge process for those packages that *must* have a preconfig done
> would help (are there any though? I can think of one maybe, but not
> really anything to demand new functionality in portage yet).

This problem is mostly present in the embedded world. As the packages
have to be fine tuned (as a kernel is) at compiled time for the system
on which it is beiing build. For example, uClibc and busybox uses a
kernel like config.

As described on busybox's home page:

"BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the
utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The
utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their
full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included
provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU
counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any
small or embedded system."

With so many applications/options provided by a single package, that aim
to go in small memory/storage system, one must understand that users
must fine tune it.

Kristian

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