[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] python: enable bzip2 in host variant

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:43:40 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:

> > Could you give some more details about this? The tarfile module seems
> > to only import the bz2 module when a bzip2-compressed file is handled.
> > Is this actually the case with rust?  
> 
> This was required because my initial take on Rust let the build process
> download the rust-stage0 bzip2 tarball and uncompress it on its own. As
> the bootstrap binary will now be provided by the rust-bootstrap
> package, this is not needed anymore.

OK, great!

> > Indeed, host-python is used by numerous packages, and we're trying to
> > not add too many dependencies to host-python. On the other hand,
> > building bzip2 is pretty fast, so maybe it's reasonable to add it as a
> > mandatory dependency of host-python.  
> 
> bz2 tarballs are widespread. So having support for this format in
> host-python, regardless of Rust, will benefit the user.

host-python is only meant to be used as a dependency to build other
things in Buildroot. As long as these "other things" don't need bz2
support in Python, there's no reason to enable it.

Thomas
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