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@@ -4,26 +4,54 @@ or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
 around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 
 * login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
-    needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link in libcrypt).
+    needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
+
+* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
+    separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?).  This would remove the
+    following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and
+    ping.  nfs mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
 
  -Erik
 
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-* mknod --help segfaults
-
-* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
-* Make insmod actually work
-* init clearly needs to support some type of minimalist /etc/inittab. I
-    currently have _way_ too much policy hardcoded in the source.  Adding
-    support for getty has made me realize how much that sucks.
 * dnsdomainname
-* traceroute/nslookup/netstat
-* rdate
+* traceroute/netstat
 * hwclock
-* killall
 * stty
-* wc
-* tr
-* expr (maybe?)  (ash builtin?)
+* tftp
+* ftp
+* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
+
+-----------------------
+
+Running the following:
+
+    rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
+       sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
+
+reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
+It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, and
+then create a microLibc to provide these functions.  There is no good reason
+for GNU libc to be so big.  I'm sure it can be a lot better.
+
+(BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...)
+
+Most wanted list:
+
+    [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getgroups *.[ch]
+    test.c
+
+Policy violation.  getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
+to be present in an embedded system.
+
+-----------------------
+
+Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
+and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
+
+-----------------------
+
+ du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
 
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