[PATCH] treewide: switch head to SUSv3-style arguments

Rui Salvaterra rsalvaterra at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 09:19:03 EDT 2020


Hi, Henrique,

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 14:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<henrique at nic.br> wrote:
>
> Unless the size savings are very high to justify it, it is probably a
> very bad idea to disable SuS-v2 support in busybox.
>
> And it would need to be a sizeable reduction to be worth it indeed: as
> you already noticed, some of it will be lost with compatibility syntax
> changes.
>
> Removing SuSv2 from busybox is too damn likely to bite people badly
> downstream.  Please reconsider.  This is *NOT* a "no-brainer" change, it
> is a tidal wave that ripples down to everything that uses OpenWRT, every
> feed, every downstream, and users.

You are absolutely right, and I found it out the hard way by going
down this rabbit hole. Please disregard this patch, as well as the one
I sent to change the default behaviour of BusyBox. It's just not worth
the hassle and potential issues, at all.

Sorry for the noise,
Rui



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