From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [200.17.161.174] (helo=listas.ossystems.com.br) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LXlX9-0005BL-2m for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:03:55 +0100 Received: from internet.ossystems.com.br (201-40-162-47.cable.viacabocom.com.br [201.40.162.47]) by listas.ossystems.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278C44025B; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:02:51 -0200 (BRST) Received: from ossystems.com.br (unknown [10.1.0.243]) by internet.ossystems.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7EB740D9; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:02:44 -0200 (BRST) Received: by ossystems.com.br (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F35FF6101F6; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:02:31 -0200 (BRST) From: Otavio Salvador To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Organization: O.S. Systems Ltda. References: <1234456715-23618-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234456715-23618-2-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234456715-23618-3-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234456715-23618-4-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234460865.3592.2.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> <49946CA4.6060303@dls.net> X-URL: http://www.debian.org/~otavio/ X-Attribution: O.S. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:02:31 -0200 In-Reply-To: <49946CA4.6060303@dls.net> (Mike's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:38:28 -0600") Message-ID: <8763jfmcfc.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] package.bbclass, package_ipk.bbclass: add dynamic depends on locale packages (ipk specific) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:03:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Mike (mwester)" writes: >> This looks like it will add locale dependencies to all the subpackages >> (e.g. foo-doc, foo-dev and the like) as well as the main "foo" package, >> which is a bit different to how the old code used to work. But I guess >> that's harmless enough: the worst effect will be to bloat the Packages >> file a bit, and I doubt anybody will care too much. So, thumbs up from >> me. > > How much bloat? Opkg already trips the OOM killer on the NSLU2 (32MB of > RAM) when it loads the current Packages file and then tries to do > something; we can work around it for now, but if this doubles the size > in-memory, we may simply not have enough RAM to do whatever it is that > opkg does with all that in-memory. > > I have grave concerns over anything that adds unnecessary entries that > cannot be turned off. Personally I don't think any bloat needs to be pushed and with that in mind I think we could then rework it to be enabled by default but disabled using a variable. What people think? I'd also be interested in a BitBake expert comment about it all. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: otavio@debian.org UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house."