[Toybox] toybox symlink paths, OE conventions and FHS

[Eduardas Meile]

It has come to my attention that toybox is currently patched to change 
paths of some tools in Open Embedded:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/meta-oe/recipes-core/toybox/toybox/OE-path-changes.patch?id=cdd3e9ab99d4ffda673b564ba802b6bd2d40eabf

Not really sure which project does the right thing: OE or toybox.

Also, I have noticed that there was a thread on the mailing list 
discussing similar issues back in 2015:

http://lists.landley.net/htdig.cgi/toybox-landley.net/2015-April/007262.html

http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/attachments/20150410/56dd947d/attachment-0004.patch

The end of the thread is inconclusive:

http://lists.landley.net/htdig.cgi/toybox-landley.net/2015-April/007262.html

Not sure why but some of the suggested changes for paths (like the ones 
for sed, dd and ps) were never implemented.

Also noticed that sed, dd and ps should go into /bin according to the 
FHS spec hosted by the Linux Foundation:

http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s04.html

So that raises the question whether toybox tries to follow the Linux 
Foundation FHS spec.

As it is not listed among "Relevant Standards" on 
http://landley.net/toybox/about.html

I assume it does not, but a clarification would be very welcome. It is 
unclear to me personally what

is the driving force behind how toybox sets tool symlinks. If it does 
not adhere to some specific spec,

perhaps it follows how some specific distro (or Android) does this?

My main concern here is to understand what the proper technical solution 
should be:

should I ask for changes in default toybox tool paths (like people did 
back in 2015) or patching the paths in OE

is the correct solution? The patch appeared relatively recently. The 
reason (from Yocto IRC):

  <rburton> (mostly because there was a bug in update-alternatives until 
about a week ago where it didn't like alternatives for commands being in 
different directories

If patching in OE is the correct path, the patch should probably be 
extended to cover all of the toybox tools, not just the ones in the 
default defconfig.

Busybox in OE does not need any patches for paths as far as I can tell, 
so perhaps it would be a good idea for toybox to install

things where busybox installs them?