[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] lxc needs gzip scripts for lxc-checkconfig runtime

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, Jonathan, All,

On 2015-09-20 23:01 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:15:02 +0300 (IDT), Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> 
> > I wondered whether to send a patch for each 'select' individually or to 
> > wait until I complete my testing and submit a single patch with all of the 
> > lxc selects. What do you prefer?
> 
> Both solutions are fine with me. You can send patches as you
> progressively discover the issues, or send a single patch fixing all
> problems at once.
> 
> I'm just wondering if we want to make all these dependencies actually
> mandatory or not. It seems some of these dependencies are only used for
> one specific tool in LXC. If the tool is not crucial in LXC usage,
> maybe we should make it optional via a sub-option? I'm not sure here,
> just thinking out loud.

Well, lxc is already in the 'server-class' software, probably to run a
bunch of containers, themselves in the 'bloatware-class'.

So, the overhead of having gzip is probably insignifiant in the face of
the size of the rest of the system.

So, I'm OK with selecting gzip unconditionally.

However, I would not want to force-select BB_SHOW_OTHERS, even though we
already do it in three locations. Well, damn be it, just select both.

Jonathan, care to fix and respin, please?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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