From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] jq: enable host package
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:20:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021232020.610e4735@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5627FDD5.8060207@mind.be>
Arnout,
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:04:21 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing when I say the patch, but I don't care enough to
> really comment on it. It's a bit similar to packages that depend on some host
> preprocessing tool, like flex. But then of course we just have a dependency and
> not a Config.in.host.
To me, host packages that are a dependency of some other target
packages have a real and strong reason to exist. The ones that don't
should really fall into the "useful for debugging, flashing or
preparing images" category IMO.
> OTOH, if we accept this, it kind of opens the doors to support almost
> everything as a host package. But maybe there's nothing wrong with that either.
Opening the door to almost everything as a host package is personally
something that I'd like to avoid.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-19 10:42 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] jq: disable maintainer mode Thomas De Schampheleire
2015-10-19 10:42 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] jq: enable host package Thomas De Schampheleire
2015-10-21 20:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-10-21 21:04 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-10-21 21:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-10-22 8:22 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2015-10-22 19:54 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-10-22 16:39 ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-10-22 19:22 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2015-10-25 20:37 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-10-21 20:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] jq: disable maintainer mode Thomas Petazzoni
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