[gentoo-embedded] uclibc/busybox environment

[Sander Knopper <sander@knopper.tk>]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a gentoo based system which has to run on a usb 
stick.

I've been playing with the uclibc profile but that still gave me a lot of 
unneeded things. For example, I can't why how util-linux, automake, autoconf 
etc. etc. have to depend on perl. So I took another look and saw the embedded 
profile which to my surprise also uses busybox but doesn't use uclibc....

Is there a way to combine these two profiles or is it better to make one of my 
own? At the moment I would go with the second option since it would allow me 
to use busybox, uclibc and also give me the opportunity to leave utilities as 
gawk, grep, gzip and tar away because busybox already supplies them. I'll 
have to take the fact that these programs sometimes aren't fully compatible 
with their GNU relatives for granted.

So basically I'm planning to create a whole new profile which doesn't include 
the base files either since it forces me to install all these utilities I 
don't want.

Or is there an easier way?

Currently I'm using the buildroot scripts from uclibc.org but I just miss the 
abilities of a "package manager" so that's why I'm trying it this way.


Regards,

Sander Knopper

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