Re: [bug-inetutils] More of a feature request than a bug fix

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > For a root/boot disk set I would not even recommend using inetutils,
   > let alone things like the GNU C Library, they are not suitable for
   > such specific systems.  Inetutils is written to be feature rich.  If
   > you really need such featureless programs then there are far better
   > alternatives.

   Why *shouldn't* we make inetutils sufficiently modular to be suitable
   for this?

There is a big difference between making something modular, and making
something small.  If making something small is the goal, then we
shouldn't use nice functions likes argp/error etc, which make things
modular.

And anyway, if one is going to make a boot/root disk then one will
need ls/cat/etc anyway, and coreutils is surely not the best place to
get those programs.  Just to make a point ls compiled on my system is
281kb unstriped, and 65kb striped.  The whole busybox suit, including
uClibc is proboly something inbetween.