From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/postgresql: needs wchar
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:24:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181116092424.79d94e4b@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181115165903.GL10271@scaer>
Hello,
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:59:03 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> I agree with Arnout here.
>
> However, from a purely pragmatic point of view, I see that it is totally
> useless in practice, so I would not mind we drop them.
>
> And in retrospect, I think it *is* better that we do drop them. If the
> top-level option loses that dependency, then it is 'easy' to detect it
> has become mandatory for a sub-option, because the autobuilders will
> fail.
>
> However, if we repeat the dependency and the top-level option lses it
> and we forget to remove it, we will never realise that the sub-option
> shouldalso lose it.
That is indeed a good argument. Should we settle on the idea that we
should not uselessly replicate such dependencies ?
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-16 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-23 16:09 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/postgresql: needs wchar Bernd Kuhls
2018-10-23 17:25 ` Adam Duskett
2018-10-23 18:04 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-11-01 21:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-11-15 16:59 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-11-16 8:24 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-11-20 18:35 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-11-01 21:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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