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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:05:44 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/pkg-kconfig: Be sure to reconfigure
 the package on foo-reconfigure
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Hello,

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:42:30 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> I think the answer to this question is simple: one of the goals was to allow:
> 
> 'make clean linux-menuconfig'
> 
> without this step first building all dependencies of linux (which is
> quite a lot).
> If the kconfig configuration would be part of CONFIGURE_CMDS, then
> we'd end up in that situation.

Gaah, yes, indeed, makes sense. Can we write this somewhere?

Thanks,

Thomas
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