[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/20] core/pkg-generic: add variable to skip skeleton dependency

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

Peter, All,

On 2017-07-23 11:12 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> writes:
> 
>  >> Instead of checking for all the skeleton-providing packages in the core
>  >> infra, add a new package options so that packages can express they do
>  >> not need the dependency on the skeleton, like we have an option to avoid
>  >> the depednency on the toolchain. The only packages that will use that
>  >> option are probably the skeletons, so we need not document this
>  >> variable, like we did not document the option to exclude the dependency
>  >> on the toolchain.
>  >> 
>  >> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
>  >> Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> 
>  >  I absolutely hate adding additional variables that are used for only a few
>  > packages, but I have no better ideas, so
> 
> An alternative could be to enforce a naming convention for these
> packages, E.G. skeleton-*, and then use $(filter skeleton%,$(1)) in the
> check, but I'm not sure that really is much nicer.

We also talked about that possibility on IRC, and came to the conclusion
that it was not nice to hard-code magic values in the infra.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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