[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v3] core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet

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

Arnout, All,

On 2016-08-30 00:46 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 30-08-16 00:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Peter, Thomas, All,
> > 
> > On 2016-08-28 22:50 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
> >>  > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:34:26 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >>  >> +# Ensure the kconfig snippet is generated (for MANUAL_GEN_LISTS, below):
> >>  >> +MANUAL_DEPENDENCIES += prepare-kconfig
> >>
> >>  > It's a bit crazy the complexity that we have just to allow our manual
> >>  > to have the list of all packages in Buildroot. I'm not even sure this
> >>  > section of the manual is that useful, to be honest. But oh well, that's
> >>  > supported today, so we have to continue support it.
> >>
> >> Why do we _HAVE_ to continue to support it?
> >>
> >> If we don't find the complexity worth the added value (I personally
> >> don't, I think we could just ask people to look under package/ for the
> >> list of packages), then we should just remove it.
> > 
> > I'm not entirely against removing the list of out packages from our
> > manual.
> > 
> > Yet, for some users of br2-external trees, they may still want to have
> > the list of their packages in their manuals, build with the asciidoc
> > infrastructure.
> > 
> > It is entirely imaginable that such users of br2-external have packages
> > annotated with some documentation for those packages, and want to
> > include that doc in their manual, so need to generate that list from
> > Kconfig.
> 
>  I'm not really enthousiastic about keeping complexity in our Makefiles for
> imaginary users that may want to have such and such feature :-P
> 
>  I'm very enthousiastic when people contribute some feature that I'm never going
> to use myself - but in that case, we know that there is at least one user (the
> contributor). But here, we really have added a feature with no known users.

Have you read what I wrote: I *am* using it.

    http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-August/171055.html

> At
> the time, it didn't add (much) complexity, but more and more it's starting to
> weigh down I think.
> 
>  For sure, the asciidoc support is even more difficult to understand and
> maintain than the normal package infras.

And I seem to have a good track-record at looking at it:

    $ git log --follow --pretty=%an package/doc-asciidoc.mk |sort |uniq -c  |sort -k1nr,2
         22 Yann E. MORIN
          8 Samuel Martin
          7 Thomas De Schampheleire
          2 Thomas Petazzoni
          1 Atul Singh
          1 J?r?me Pouiller

So, please, please. let's keep this asciidoc infra in place.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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