From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 16:15:30 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4 v2] manual: get rid of the lists of packages In-Reply-To: <20160904152039.1c00e023@free-electrons.com> References: <206a0e9bf7a1e99fa176fe1345d245881f14b858.1472943074.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20160904152039.1c00e023@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160904141530.GA6522@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'