[Buildroot] [PATCH 05/13] midori: remove configuration comment on X.org dependency

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Le Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:06:51 +0200,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> a ?crit :

> I don't completely agree. For toolchain issues such as WCHAR I think
> the comments can be very helpful as it isn't obvious why a package
> isn't visible.

True, but they're also very unpretty in the package list.

> For package dependencies, 'select' should be used for library
> dependencies. For huge things like X, I think it's OK to not show any
> comments as the user most likely doesn't expect an X package to be
> available if they haven't enabled X.

Yes.

> Related to this, I think we should move the X applications into a
> seperate sub menu.

Agreed. I've just started proposing some cleanups. More will follow if
I find some time.

> The stuff that can work with either directfb or X is a bit more
> tricky.

Definitely.

>  Thomas> Let's get rid of them, and let the user figure out using the
>  Thomas> help of each package available in the configuration system.
> 
> How? The package won't be visible if it has unmet dependencies.

Well, someone is currently working on xconfig support for Buildroot
(the patches should be coming out if I find the time to review them).
And xconfig allows to see all options, including the ones that cannot
be selected at the moment. Maybe a similar thing could be added to the
menuconfig interface ?

Thomas
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