From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 11:50:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] perl-file-util: new package In-Reply-To: <1149779921.3174899.1425159102229.JavaMail.zimbra@datacom.ind.br> References: <1425061661-3190-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> <20150228113933.00d7ac8e@free-electrons.com> <1149779921.3174899.1425159102229.JavaMail.zimbra@datacom.ind.br> Message-ID: <20150301115037.53e2cffc@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:31:42 -0300 (BRT), DATACOM - casantos wrote: > At the company I work for (DATACOM) we use a third-party software by > whose compilation is performed by a set of Perl scripts which use the > File::Util module. That's why we need the host package. Of course we > could use the Perl packages provided by the host OS but we prefer to > reduce the dependency on locally installed packages in order to > reduce dependencies with regard to the host OS. Ok. It would be good to indicate this in the commit log, because your patch adds a host package without any way to build it, unless another custom package is added with a dependency on host-perl-file-util. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com