Re: [gentoo-user] Why busybox?

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 2020.04.05 16:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:54 AM Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>  
> wrote:
> >
> > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me?
> >
> > As far as I know the only use for it on a desktop system is for
> > initramfs.  I have no initramfs, therefore I have no need for  
> busybox.
> > I unmerged it and nothing bad happened except for a warning from  
> portage
> > that it is part of my profile set.  I went ahead and ignored the
> > warning.
> >
> > But now I updated the tree and emerge -p shows it will be installed
> > again.  Why is that?  The only reverse dependencies are virtuals  
> which
> > are satisfied in other ways, like virtual/awk.  So is it the profile
> > thing?  But I have done the same with other profile packages  
> (notably
> > editors/nano) and those are _not_ coming back.
> >
> > --
> > Ian
> 
> emerge is your friend. Something like
> 
> emerge -p -e
> 
> should. I believe, tell you where every package dependency comes from.
> 
> It's not always fun to read but the answer to your question should be  
> there.
> 
> - Mark
I find "emerge -p -c busybox" even easier, and it tells me busybox is  
required by @system.

Jack