I don't know about you but in order to get any work done on the kindle I need to replace half of the busybox tools with standalone executables providing missing functionality I rely on, I need a real bash, perl, python, basic text and image processing, mobigen, etc and I like them not clutter a fatfs-formatted rw-mounted data partition but be installed under /usr/local where they belong. That partition is only 650MB and 80% full, so I find the option to save space with upx compression very relevant and useful. Eventually, it will probably all be moved into a compressed image having to sit in /mnt/us and loop-mounted at /usr/local, but if that could be avoided it would be nice. I also do not think that the 3GB available in /mnt/us are excessive and expect them to fill up quickly.
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