busybox[static] was added to @system as a system recovery tool.

If the system is in such a state that a static shell is needed for
recovery, it is likely that remote access is also broken, and the
sysadmin will need to log into a console. At that point, they could boot
from recovery media anyway.

Also, stage3 tarballs are often used to build containers, where having
a recovery tool installed is completely pointless.

Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
---
profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/packages b/profiles/default/linux/packages index d0b8745d044..6d35bf72e20 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/packages
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/packages
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2004-2015 Gentoo Foundation.
+# Copyright 2004-2021 Gentoo Authors.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# This file extends the base packages file for the default profile that all
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
# will have. Some will have an selinux profile (see ${PORTDIR}/profiles/selinux).
# The idea is to only create a new family of profiles when absolutely necessary.

-*sys-apps/busybox
*sys-apps/iproute2
*sys-apps/man-pages
*sys-apps/net-tools
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With busybox no longer in @system, there is no reason to make it static
by default.

Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
---
profiles/default/linux/package.use | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/package.use b/profiles/default/linux/package.use
index e45526319f5..a283c16b146 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/package.use
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/package.use
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> (2017-10-29)
# Override default from make.defaults, bug 635822.
net-libs/mbedtls -zlib

-# Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (2015-11-12)
-# We want busybox statically linked by default as it is the system rescue shell.
-# But we cannot statically link pam, so turn that off by default. #468580 -sys-apps/busybox -pam static
-
# Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org> (2011-02-13)
# Disable deprecated bsddb module of Python 2 by default.
=dev-lang/python-2* -berkdb

Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
---
sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.20.ebuild | 2 +-
sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.25.ebuild | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.20.ebuild b/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.20.ebuild
index f75a2a57824..f31e856bc88 100644
--- a/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.20.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.20.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ fi
LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+ public-domain BSD BSD-2"
SLOT="0/1"
KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
-IUSE="+compat split-usr +static-libs system test"
+IUSE="+compat split-usr static-libs system test"
REQUIRED_USE="split-usr? ( system )"
RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"

diff --git a/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.25.ebuild b/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.25.ebuild
index 0124869d552..dca937cb958 100644
--- a/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.25.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-4.4.25.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ fi
LICENSE="LGPL-2.1

On 9 Sep 2021, at 20:47, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

busybox[static] was added to @system as a system recovery tool.

If the system is in such a state that a static shell is needed for
recovery, it is likely that remote access is also broken, and the
sysadmin will need to log into a console. At that point, they could boot
from recovery media anyway.

Indeed, @system is for essential tools, and busybox isn't one of them.

It's a choice. Maybe folks prefer toybox.

Also, stage3 tarballs are often used to build containers, where having
a recovery tool installed is completely pointless.

Please tag Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/750920 in the commits (ideally all
so no context is lost for future references).

Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
---
profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

best,
sam

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I support this.

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On Thu, 2021-09-09 at 15:47 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:

busybox[static] was added to @system as a system recovery tool.

If the system is in such a state that a static shell is needed for
recovery, it is likely that remote access is also broken, and the
sysadmin will need to log into a console. At that point, they could
boot
from recovery media anyway.

Also, stage3 tarballs are often used to build containers, where having
a recovery tool installed is completely pointless.

Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
---
 profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/packages b/profiles/default/linux/packages
index d0b8745d044..6d35bf72e20 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/packages
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/packages
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2004-2015 Gentoo Foundation.
+# Copyright 2004-2021 Gentoo Authors.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # This file extends the base packages file for the default profile
that all
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 # will have.  Some will have an selinux profile (see ${PORTDIR}/profiles/selinux).
 # The idea is to only create a new family of profiles when absolutely necessary.
 
-*sys-apps/busybox
 *sys-apps/iproute2
 *sys-apps/man-pages
 *sys-apps/net-tools

I fully support this
+1

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