From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:23:27 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/libglib2: Do not depend on util-linux In-Reply-To: References: <20190916191605.86764-1-aduskett@gmail.com> <20190916191605.86764-2-aduskett@gmail.com> <20190917220216.3f719f37@windsurf> Message-ID: <20190917232327.2519c510@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:32:03 -0300 Carlos Santos wrote: > > Applied to master, thanks. This may cause problems for people who > > currently needed libmount, but do not have anything else in their > > configuration that selects util-linux libmount option. Their next > > Buildroot build will silently no longer have libmount support. > > > > However, we don't really have a good way to handle such dependencies > > that used to be mandatory and become optional, so there's not much we > > can do about it. > > > > We might however see a few build issues from reverse dependencies of > > libglib2 that do need libmount. Such reverse dependencies will have to > > select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBMOUNT by themselves. > > Yet another candidate to depend on the impending util-linux-libs. Indeed, but I don't see how util-linux-libs would have helped handling "legacy" configurations in the transition from util-linux-libs being a mandatory dependency to util-linux-libs becoming an optional dependency. But I could be missing something here, it's getting late for me. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com