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Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:04:49 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/8092 Hi Robert, On 11/19/25 2:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > > Rather than refer specifically to Ubuntu and show an example of > installing essential packages, just refer the reader to the page on > supported Linux distributions and leave it at that. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day > > --- > > diff --git a/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst b/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst > index 211b6d70f..36acd655e 100644 > --- a/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst > +++ b/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst > @@ -71,21 +71,14 @@ can still use the Yocto Project. See the > :ref:`ref-manual/system-requirements:required git, tar, python, make and gcc versions` > section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual for information. > > -Build Host Packages > -=================== > - > -You must install essential host packages on your build host. The > -following command installs the host packages based on an Ubuntu > -distribution: > - > -.. literalinclude:: ../tools/host_packages_scripts/ubuntu_essential.sh > - :language: shell > - > -.. note:: > - > - For host package requirements on all supported Linux distributions, > - see the :ref:`ref-manual/system-requirements:required packages for the build host` > - section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual. > +Supported Linux Distributions and Required Host Packages > +======================================================== > + > +Depending on your Linux distribution, you might have to install > +some essential packages on your build host. For host package Spurious whitespace after the dot? It's unlikely someone's system will have all dependencies already installed so I think we can just lose the first sentence? We should probably also update the note at the top of the page. Especially the "running a *recent* Ubuntu distribution". We're often a few weeks if not months behind after a new distro version has been released before we actually do support it officially, and we don't always backport support for that new distro version on older YP/BB/OE releases. Looks good otherwise, Thanks! Quentin