From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] gdb texinfo dependency
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:18:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007221859.1a4641a1@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LVADUKKkpL-fjgUKv0+tsM1wUOZeo5dDKf1c4=2Eti9cQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 21:36:40 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> > I think for target packages ignoring info files is fine for small
> > systems and other doc related code like manpages.
> > for host packages may be it is still useful
>
> The purpose of Buildroot is to build a target system. The host
> packages are just there to help with that goal. I don't think we
> should care for documentation, even for host packages. If people want
> to read documentation of a package, they should use other means,
> either search the internet, read the documentation directly in the
> source tree, consult the documentation on their own host system, ...
Agreed. We don't build or care about the documentation, regardless of
whether it is for target or host packages.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-07 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-05 15:14 [Buildroot] gdb texinfo dependency Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-05 15:27 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-10-05 20:11 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-05 20:16 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-10-05 21:23 ` Romain Naour
2016-10-06 18:57 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-06 18:59 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-06 19:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni
[not found] ` <CAAXf6LUwubkNu9+25LUZyOMchdFfHjYUa5pzdfOF9xYfjzWamA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAAXf6LXcZ2BOc+znu6GQFX3oC=LVAYO=inYGwk83JKHRQR2T-g@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-06 19:50 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-07 12:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-10-07 16:20 ` Khem Raj
2016-10-07 19:36 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-07 20:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-10-07 19:34 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2016-10-07 20:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-10-05 15:43 ` Khem Raj
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