From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 12:33:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/24] Drop unused host packages In-Reply-To: <77293ee3-6e4c-7342-214d-adffdde679f8@mind.be> References: <1467207991-4905-1-git-send-email-julien.floret@6wind.com> <20160629155233.510c456e@free-electrons.com> <77293ee3-6e4c-7342-214d-adffdde679f8@mind.be> Message-ID: <20160702123305.6bfbbc81@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com