From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:34:43 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: add pacman 4.2.1 In-Reply-To: References: <1426736888-29437-1-git-send-email-steven@uplinklabs.net> <1426736888-29437-5-git-send-email-steven@uplinklabs.net> <20150320205209.2830b9bc@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150320213443.7dcf4817@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 Steven Noonan, On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:18:46 -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: > > In addition to the comments made by Baruch, could you also include in > > the commit log a motivation for adding this package in Buildroot? > > > > It seems a bit weird to package the package manager of another distro. > > Why do we have RPM then? :) Well, to be honest I don't know how rpm compares to pacman. I believe the reason we have rpm and opkg is because some people might build their own binary packages (outside of Buildroot, since Buildroot doesn't allow building binary packages), and install them inside a Buildroot system. > If we don't want it in there I have no problem maintaining it in my > own tree. Well, it's that we don't want it, the package seems pretty simple, so it's not that a big issue. It's just that it's a bit unusual, and some explanations about the use case would be useful. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com