netkit-telnet and busybox

[Auke Kok]

Benoit Valiron wrote:

>Hello !
>
>I have installed netkit-telnet, and here is the result of "lvu install netkit-telnet":
>
>/bin/busybox
>/usr/sbin/in.telnetd
>/usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1
>/usr/share/man/man5/issue.net.5
>/usr/share/man/man8/in.telnetd.8
>/usr/share/man/man8/telnetd.8
>/var/log/lunar/install/netkit-telnet-0.18-pre1a
>/var/log/lunar/compile/netkit-telnet-0.18-pre1a.bz2
>/var/log/lunar/md5sum/netkit-telnet-0.18-pre1a
>
>
>The file /usr/bin/telnet is not listed, and it appears that in the
>file system it is a link to /bin/busybox. Why is that ? In particular,
>why is there a program called "busybox" in this package, since another
>package is called "busybox" ?
>  
>


The reason is that /bin/telnet was a symlink to /bin/busybox. As you 
installed netkit-telnet the installer just did something like 'cp 
telnet.o /bin/telnet', which of course overwrites /bin/busybox, but will 
leave the symlink untouched.

busybox of course should conflict with netkit-telnet... but that would 
mean that busybox conflicts with just about every other module as well, 
and is awkward. Most people can live without busybox and would prefer to 
remove it after installation I think (personal opinion)

sofar