[Buildroot] Can you consider add official support for toybox?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:46:25 +0000
Na Luke <NJLYF2011 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Toybox is a toolkit similar to busybox, it provides similar functions
> to busybox, and it is also used on the Android operating system.
> 
> Its license agreement is relatively loose and can be used in some
> occasions where GPL is not applicable, so I think BuildRoot can
> consider adding support for toybox.

We would most likely welcome patches. I think there was a proposal a
long time ago, but it was complete enough. Packaging toybox is not that
simple. Of course, building it is easy. But then like Busybox, it
provides replacements/alternatives to a lot of tools, and we have
special handling in a number of packages for this. Would need to see
how that would work with Toybox.

So, yes, feasible, but not necessarily as trivial to do as it might
initially look like.

Best regards,

Thomas
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