From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:26:43 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] gnuplot : new package In-Reply-To: <50E6F604.4000401@relinux.de> References: <1357311193-31887-1-git-send-email-viallard@syscom-instruments.com> <50E6F604.4000401@relinux.de> Message-ID: <20130104172643.72321640@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Stephan Hoffmann, On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:32:20 +0100, Stephan Hoffmann wrote: > > +GNUPLOT_CONF_OPT = --without-x \ > is there a special reason for this? Why not build with x, when X11 is > configured in buildroot? I guess because Anthony didn't need X support. It is not because a given software component can potentially support feature Y or Z that we require the package submitter to support all those features Y or Z. It would put way too much load on the initial package submitter. Instead, we prefer having small packages that only support the features that have been tested by the submitter, and that carefully disables all the unsupported features. And then, as features are needed by other people, they can submit additional patches to make those additional features work. Anthony: a gnuplot patch without the X support is perfectly acceptable. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com