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		05 on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to build an embedded Linux system? Using a package manager on an embedded system is just asking for trouble. Or read-write rootfs, for that matter.

fullstop on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

I usually have a r/o rootfs as squashfs with overlayfs for changes. It makes it easy to wipe things back to factory defaults.

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