From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/24] Drop unused host packages
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 12:33:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160702123305.6bfbbc81@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77293ee3-6e4c-7342-214d-adffdde679f8@mind.be>
Hello,
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 12:18:30 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> That automatic derivation of dependencies of host packages sounded like a good
> idea at the time, but it can really bite you. Of the 200 host packages that we
> have at the moment, there are just 64 that use the inheritance - and many of
> them are in Julien's list here (possibly incorrectly).
>
> So, as the person who introduced this mis-feature, I'm the first one to vote
> for removing it again.
I agree that this automatic derivation has caused quite a few issues in
the past and in many cases, we need different dependencies for the host
and the target variants. So maybe we should think of removing this
functionality.
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:[~2016-07-02 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 13:46 [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/24] Drop unused host packages Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/24] x11r7: drop unused host variants Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/24] sepolgen: drop unused host package Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/24] attr: drop unused host variant Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/24] directfb: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/24] erlang-goldrush: " Julien Floret
2016-06-30 8:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/24] jsmin: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 16:14 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/24] libatomic_ops: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/24] libconfuse: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/24] libpthread-stubs: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/24] libsemanage: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/24] libsodium: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/24] lzip: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/24] pax-utils: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 14/24] perl-file-util: " Julien Floret
2016-07-03 15:22 ` Carlos Santos
2016-07-03 15:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/24] python-jinja2: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 16/24] python-mako: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 17/24] sdl_image: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 18/24] setools: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 19/24] xutil_util-macros: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 20/24] bzip2: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 21/24] python-markupsafe: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 22/24] sdl: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 23/24] sqlite: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 24/24] ustr: " Julien Floret
2016-06-29 13:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/24] Drop unused host packages Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 14:00 ` Julien Floret
2016-06-29 14:11 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 14:30 ` Julien Floret
2016-06-29 14:43 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-06-29 21:53 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2016-06-30 1:08 ` Henrique Marks
2016-06-30 13:01 ` Julien Floret
2016-07-02 10:05 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-07-02 10:18 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-07-02 10:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-07-02 11:30 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-07-02 14:08 ` Julien Floret
2016-07-02 14:43 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-07-02 19:15 ` Julien Floret
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