Re: [PATCH 15/28] packagegroup-base: remove openswan from packagegroup-base-ipsec

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 03 September 2012 11:50:01 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:37 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Monday 03 September 2012 11:35:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:30 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > > openswan was only ever provided in unmaintained form in meta-demoapps
> > > > which has been removed, so we never really provided it in OE-Core.
> > > 
> > > Isn't packagegroup-base-ipsec rather useless without it?
> > 
> > If you ignore the RRECOMMENDS line that follows, yes.
> 
> Is there a meaningful use-case where installing kernel-module-ipsec
> without any user-space support is a desirable thing to do?  And, even if
> the answer is yes, is it really valuable to have a
> packagegroup-base-ipsec which just recommends a single other package
> without doing anything else?

The idea is supposed to be that just having "ipsec" in DISTRO_FEATURES brings 
in what we can to support IPsec, assuming your image uses packagegroup-base 
that is.

I'd be more than happy if we went the other way and decided that IPsec was 
something worth fully supporting in OE-Core, and brought in the corresponding 
user-space bits as a result; but that's somewhat outside of the scope of this 
work.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre