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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4 v2] manual: get rid of the lists of packages
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 16:15:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160904141530.GA6522@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160904152039.1c00e023@free-electrons.com>

Thomas, All,

On 2016-09-04 15:20 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun,  4 Sep 2016 00:58:43 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > Those list take more than half of the manual. They do not serve much
> > purpose except to show off. The only one that is interesting is the list
> > of virtual packages, the associated symbols and their providers.
> 
> I would like to challenge the fact that the list of virtual packages is
> more useful than the rest of the list.
> 
> virtual packages are purely internal things, you only need to know
> about virtual packages when you're adding new packages in Buildroot.
> And when you're adding new packages in Buildroot, you have far enough
> experience to do a "git grep virtual-package" and find which ones are
> available.

Of course, I do not agree! ;-)

But do I care enough to argue? Certainly not. I tend to be less
interested in making things easy/easier for the users nowadays... :-/

I'll send an updated patch that removes all the lists altogether.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-04 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-03 22:58 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4 v2] manual: remove lists of packages (branch yem/manual-no-package-list) Yann E. MORIN
2016-09-03 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4 v2] package/cryptodev: properly declare providers Yann E. MORIN
2016-09-03 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4 v2] package/openssl: depend on the virtual cryptodev package Yann E. MORIN
2016-09-03 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4 v2] package/jpeg: properly declare providers Yann E. MORIN
2016-09-03 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4 v2] manual: get rid of the lists of packages Yann E. MORIN
2016-09-04 13:20   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-04 14:15     ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2016-09-04 15:19       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-19 17:47   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-19 20:42     ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-09-04 13:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4 v2] manual: remove lists of packages (branch yem/manual-no-package-list) Thomas Petazzoni

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