Slate-AXT1800 4.8.X Firmware feedback

[glinoob]

I have a question related to missing packages on GL-AXT1800, maybe you can answer?

GL-AXT1800 4.8.x missing packages

Question: is GL.iNet keeping a list of packages to compile for every release of firmware for the wlan-ap devices (AXT-1800 and I guess AX-1800)? I ask for a couple reasons. I will submit these two plug-ins to R&D, if they can be adapted and compiled normally. The first reason is, patch and diffutils are very basic Unix-y utilities, and I was quite surprised to find I couldn’t install them via OpenWrt. The second reason is, I found some other old threads complaining about lack of packages f…