[Buildroot] How handle broken or partly broken packages in the distribution

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:12:56 -0200
Thiago A. Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt
> <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> wrote:
> >> so they are not selectable for AVR32 users
> >>
> >
> > To make it harder to fix the problem with the packages?
> >
> > It might also be a result from the development environment on your
> > build machine, like the recent alsa-utils errors somebody else
> > found on opensuse, which I have not triggered in my Ubuntu system.
> >
> 
> I agree with HCE. Making packages unselectable or invisible is not a
> good approach.
> I think it would be very sufficient to just document it on the help
> string and take it out of the defconfig for that arch.
> 

Or just have a Wiki with a list of all packages and which archs they
work and do not work on. Users should also see/find this table fast, so
they easily know what is expected to work and what is not.

It might even encourage users to start fiddling with packages not
working.

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Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt