From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:20:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] jq: enable host package In-Reply-To: <5627FDD5.8060207@mind.be> References: <1445251329-18120-1-git-send-email-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> <1445251329-18120-2-git-send-email-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> <20151021223958.5605a589@free-electrons.com> <5627FDD5.8060207@mind.be> Message-ID: <20151021232020.610e4735@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com