From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:12:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] coreutils: use single binary in symlink method, with merged usr In-Reply-To: <1506536724-10603-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> References: <1506529411-26172-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> <1506536724-10603-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> Message-ID: <20170927211210.11b92316@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:25:24 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote: > The symlink method is faster, since there is no shell fork/exec, and > provides extra space savings. Keep using the shebang method without > merged usr, because it makes easier to move binaries into other > directories. I'm not sure why we would want to make a difference between merged /usr and non-merged /usr. Is the shebang method really useful/interesting? Busybox is using symlinks, and that is just fine. Why not do the same for coreutils? In addition, having too many differences between merged /usr and non-merged /usr is a test/maintenance burden. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com