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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] alsa-utils: Move alsaconf to its own recipe
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On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:47 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> 18575b082a4042376fd1575465e69562dea04ddc added bash as a dependency of
> alsa-utils-alsaconf so that the script interpreter will be available at
> run time.  However, this has the undesirable side effect of making bash
> be a build dependency for alsa-utils and, for those folks who don't need
> alsaconf but do want some other part of alsa-utils, this cure is worse
> than the original disease.
> 
> Fix this by moving alsaconf to a separate recipe so that the bash
> dependency only applies when alsaconf is specifically requested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
> ---
>  .../alsa/alsa-utils-alsaconf_1.0.26.bb             |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.26.bb  |   12 +++++++----
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils-alsaconf_1.0.26.bb

I merged this however I'm not convinced its the right way to handle
this. I'm wondering about a PACKAGECONFIG which when turned off, deletes
alsaconf. I suspect that might be a nicer way to handle this kind of
issue going forward...

Cheers,

Richard