From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:24:24 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/postgresql: needs wchar In-Reply-To: <20181115165903.GL10271@scaer> References: <20181023160931.16417-1-bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> <643ca3d2-1825-4707-5fbb-0817229188f9@mind.be> <20181101223046.72222a3c@windsurf> <20181115165903.GL10271@scaer> Message-ID: <20181116092424.79d94e4b@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:59:03 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > I agree with Arnout here. > > However, from a purely pragmatic point of view, I see that it is totally > useless in practice, so I would not mind we drop them. > > And in retrospect, I think it *is* better that we do drop them. If the > top-level option loses that dependency, then it is 'easy' to detect it > has become mandatory for a sub-option, because the autobuilders will > fail. > > However, if we repeat the dependency and the top-level option lses it > and we forget to remove it, we will never realise that the sub-option > shouldalso lose it. That is indeed a good argument. Should we settle on the idea that we should not uselessly replicate such dependencies ? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com