From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 17:12:56 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/11 v3] Add list of virtual packages to manual (branch yem/manual) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140608171256.5492d0c1@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:15:13 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > This series intends to add the list of virtual packages to the manual, for > three reasons: > > - for users that are told (in a comment in the menuconfig) that a > package they need depends on a virtual package, to know what provider > to select, > > - for people writing a new provider for an existing virtual package to > have a reference of which symbol to select and which package to provide > in their Config.in and .mk files, > > - for people writing a new package that depends on features provided by > a virtual package to know what symbol to depend on. > > The series starts with some preparatory changes and cleanups, then > introduces a way to generate different forms of tables, then goes on by > removing virtual packages from the current lists, and finally adds a new > list with the virtual packages. Thanks, series applied! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com