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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/7] Introduce the _AVAILABLE mechanism
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:30:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121017213040.01b61869@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507CF328.5090505@mind.be>

Arnout,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:39:52 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>   Originally I was in favour of having the BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
> conditionals, but it _would_ probably make life simpler if we only
> had dependencies on toolchain options...
> 
>   Yann, what do you think, would it make suboption handling simpler
> if there was no 'depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON'?

The real problem with _AVAILABLE is not caused by Python/X.org packages
being under a big "if" condition. The big problem we hadn't really seen
is that we don't only need to add _AVAILABLE options for each package,
but also for each package sub-options that does a select on another
package. This means that the number of _AVAILABLE kconfig options to
add is a lot bigger than we expected, at a point that probably makes
the _AVAILABLE solution relatively impractical.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-09 23:40 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/7] Introduce the _AVAILABLE mechanism Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/7] docs/manual: update 'adding packages' with the new _AVAILABLE symbol Yann E. MORIN
2012-11-01  1:30   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-01 16:21     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-11-01 22:40       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-02  8:59         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] support/scripts: add a script to add a new package Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-14 11:14   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-avail: make it work without stgit Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-14 12:03     ` Baruch Siach
2012-10-14 12:12       ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-14 13:33     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-14 13:52       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-01  2:00   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] support/scripts: add a script to add a new package Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-01  9:09     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-01 17:00       ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-11-01 16:56     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-11-01 17:25     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/7] support/scripts: add a script to automate the migration to _AVAILABLE Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/7] packages: introduce the _AVAILABLE symbol to all packages Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/7] packages: use the newly-introduced _AVAILABLE symbol Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/7] packages: check proper use of 'select' against packages Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/7] script/support: get rid of now-useless pkg-avail script Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-09 23:45 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/7] Introduce the _AVAILABLE mechanism Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-10  6:51   ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-10-14 10:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-14 14:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-14 14:31   ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-14 17:38     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-16  5:39       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-10-16 17:34         ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-17 21:33           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-10-17 19:30         ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-10-17 19:47           ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-17 20:05             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-17 20:16               ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-17 20:41                 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-17 20:48                   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-10-30 23:11 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-10-30 23:35   ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-30 23:44     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-30 23:48     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-10-30 23:58       ` Yann E. MORIN

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