Things to remove from /rescue

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 06:36 am, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:43:10AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 1:08 AM -0700 7/17/03, David O'Brien wrote:
> > >This is a list of binaries that I don't feel should be part
> > >of /rescue as it's mission is to recover/rebuild a "broken" /
> > >[due to all the binaries being dynamic].  Is there
> > >justification for keeping them?
>
> This is a crunched binary, so space is really not a big issue (plus,
> the basic set of libraries is probably some 300-400Kb, so discussing
> about adding/removing components which take 2-3 KB such as date,
> sleep, comcontrol, conscontrol is just pointless in my opinion;
> just convenience should be enough to keep some things around).
>
> For ipfw/natd, i admit that they might be fatter than what one might
> want, but then again they might be useful in case you have to access
> the outside world to grab things. What do you save by removing them ?

I think this is an excellent point.  David, can you provide actual numbers
of how much removing each of these programs saves?

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