From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:57:35 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 02/15] directfb: mark as available only for gcc >= 4.5 In-Reply-To: <8737ymh3eb.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1441144876-2628-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1441144876-2628-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <8737ymh3eb.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20150911085735.4ec436c3@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 Peter Korsgaard, On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:20:28 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Not directly related to this commit, but even though directfb is a > library I think it makes more sense to use 'depends on' (and default y) > for these options for "big libraries", as: > > - People are likely to explicitly enable those libraroes if they want > them > > - Gstreamer support size is insignificant compared to the library, and > people are likely to want E.G. directfb support in gstreamer if they > enable directfb and gstreamer, so the default y is nice > > - We don't need to propagate the (often fairly complicated) library > dependencies to the users > > This applies for E.G. wayland and Qt as well. > > But that can (should) be handled outside this series. I agree. In fact for DirectFB there is already a mix of "select" and "depends on". But we can't blame anyone: it's not always very clear which one to use, so we have to clarify such things once a package starts to be used by a significant number of other packages. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com