From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTLxD-0005oK-9c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:28:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 141B7E02A9; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.stepping-stone.ch (smtp.stepping-stone.ch [194.176.109.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EA0E02A9 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail-scanner-01.int.stepping-stone.ch [10.17.98.47]) by smtp.stepping-stone.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id C552340043F for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at stepping-stone.ch Received: from smtp.stepping-stone.ch ([10.17.98.46]) by localhost (mail-scanner-01.int.stepping-stone.ch [10.17.98.47]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id FmMdbR35YYKy for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.37] (adsl-84-227-139-130.adslplus.ch [84.227.139.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by smtp.stepping-stone.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 69BD3400260 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A6624FD.9060202@stepping-stone.ch> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:45 +0200 From: Christian Affolter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090711) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] busybox and virtuals (editor, pager etc.) References: <4A55FDB7.4030107@stepping-stone.ch> <200907191409.34099.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200907191409.34099.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 178749b7-0e18-49a3-a8cc-45d11b7391b1 X-Archives-Hash: 911667e40a6a3cfd3ef5583417cc682e Hi Mike >> However if I perform an emerge world: >> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=[...] ROOT=[...] emerge world -vp >> >> Portage wants to merge: >> virtual/editor-0 >> app-editors/nano >> >> virtual/pager-0 >> sys-apps/less >> >> I have enabled less and vi in my busybox, therefore I don't want to >> install an "external" pager and editor. > > use the profile's package.provided then Yes, that's what I do at the moment... However it would be much nicer if the powerful gentoo use and dependency system could be used for this. Furthermore BusyBox init-scripts (for crond, syslogd etc.) could be installed according to the enabled use-flags, rather than manually. Is there something that speaks against such a change? If not, I'm willing to provide the necessary patches. regards Chris