From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:56:50 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/10] busybox: support only one version In-Reply-To: <20140710171848.75381ecb@free-electrons.com> References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1404237789-15563-11-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87oawxntvt.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20140710171848.75381ecb@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140710155650.GA28300@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2014-07-10 17:18 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:57:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > I wonder if time also hasn't come to get rid of > > BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS? > > I don't know. We've been discussing multiple times the SHOW_OTHERS > thing, and I believe each time our conclusion was that it's nice for > beginners to have Buildroot hide the applications for which Busybox > already provides a good alternative. I'm sure if we remove > SHOW_OTHERS, we'll have gazillions of newcomers enabling bash, > util-linux and millions of other things that aren't needed when you > have Busybox. So I still believe that SHOW_OTHERS is a good thing to > have. Agreed. > I however wonder why the SHOW_OTHERS dependency is not pushed to the > individual Config.in of each package instead of cluttering > package/Config.in. Agreed. > I'm sure there was a reason behind this choice, but I can't remember. Neither do I. If that is accepted, I'll work on this. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'