> > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > > > BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for > > rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme > > limitations. There's not really any reason to remove this, but if you > > insist... > > As for rescue scenarios, that has been obsolete for a long time. For at > least 10 years now, whenever I need to rescue myself I boot from a > separate medium that is normally offline, a CD, an SD card or a thumb > drive. >
If your breakage can be fixed by busybox, then its easier, faster and avoids downtime when compared to booting from alternate media. As its statically linked, it will still run if any libraries required by the conventional binary are stuffed (BTDT). Of course, sometimes its not enough and you will have to fall back to booting from alternate media. I don't think many will find a compelling case for its removal.
