From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:42:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/19] dependencies: add svn as a mandatory tool In-Reply-To: References: <3b207de011d13042b589031061bbe0d940e7b204.1280440124.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20100730114233.21156c3c@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:37:43 +0100 Will Newton wrote: > It seems like this might be a big dependency for people to install, > particularly if they do not use these packages. Would it be better to > make only those packages that require it depend on svn? For the moment, we haven't entered the game in which we try to narrow host dependencies to the particular package(s) that require it, just because it was easier not to do so. Maybe it's time to change this, I don't know. However, it's sure that entering this game means adding yet another level of configurability that is relatively hard to test (i.e checking that each individual package properly lists all its mandatory dependencies). But I understand that having to install SVN (and later Git) is a bit overkill. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com