[Toybox] Question about ping.

[stephen Turner]

I see it more as a developer thing anyways. The users don't control
software distribution and wont know/care about what the kernel requirement
is. On the other hand people using the 2.6 such as debian or a embedded
distributor will care and have the sense/knowledge to adjust accordingly.

On the other hand how much space are we talking? +20k? space is soo cheap
even for embedded devices no one may even notice.

Maybe i should stop playing devils advocate.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 10/13/14 14:07, stephen Turner wrote:
> > Could you make it a menu/config flag similarly to how mv and cp are
> > added/removed?
>
> I could, sure. I prefer to avoid burdening users with implementation
> details, but I suppose "support 2.6 kernels (requires suid root)" isn't
> too confusing.
>
> I do actually have a somewhat funny limitation that because I'm turning
> the menuconfig help text into ---help output for each command, I haven't
> currently got a way of explaining the config options in a way that
> DOESN'T wind up in the help text.
>
> (I could make it so lines starting with # don't go into the help text,
> but I'm balancing "do things automatically so people aren't bothered
> with details" against "magic things happen and I don't know why and am
> afraid to touch it". Beyond a certain point, I'm just plain reluctant to
> make the infrastructure more complicated unless absolutely necessary.)
>
> But in this case, I can explain it in the option name. :)
>
> Rob
>
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