[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] qt5webkit: select leveldb package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:10:46 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 31/08/2018 22:22, Ga?l PORTAY wrote:
> > +	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # leveldb  
> 
>  I don't think we need to propagate this particular dependency - qt5webkit
> already depends on libstdcpp indirectly through Qt5.

I think we need at some point to define a real policy for this. When a
dependency is redundant, should we:

 (1) Avoid duplicating it, to simplify things, but with the risk that
     if we remove the dependency at a higher-level, we forget to re-add
     back to the sub-options.

 (2) Always duplicate them, even if they are useless right now, so
     that we don't forget them in the future if the higher-level option
     drops this dependency. Drawback of this solution is that such
     dependencies don't get "exercised" by autobuilder testing so they
     are often wrong.

I don't have a strong opinion, but we're doing (1) or (2) depending on
the package developer and/or situation, and this isn't really nice.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com