From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:50:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/36] package/celt051: new package In-Reply-To: <201208171527.29938.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1344815664-28138-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <1344815664-28138-7-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20120817131818.74842ae3@skate> <201208171527.29938.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20120817155047.4e94c0dd@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:27:29 +0200, "Yann E. MORIN" a ?crit : > > Just curious, for what reason an audio codec is needed as a dependency > > of a virtual machine thing? How does it fit in the stack? > > celt-0.51 is a hard-depdency for Spice to encode the audio. > It's select-ed by BR2_PACKAGE_SPICE in a later patch. > > Note that I added all new packages in a row, rather than add them just > prior to the requiring qemu feature. Should I re-order the series to make > the depedencies clearer? No, I understood perfectly that celt was a dependency of spice. My question was not Buildroot-specific: I was trying to understand what Qemu/Spice had to do with an audio encoder. > > Do you predict this version requirement to be kept for a long period of > > time? > > Spice advertises that celt-051 is the only supported version because > later versions have changed too much and are thus not compatible. > > I have absolutely no idea whther Spice will upgrade one day... :-/ Ah, ok, I just realized you named the package celt051 and not celt just because of that. Ok, good. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com