From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 08:55:36 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] package/pkg-utils.mk: add dl_dir to show-info output In-Reply-To: <3ef870e5-4b17-e4c3-aa17-1bb69c911e99@mind.be> References: <20190803140433.27967-1-arnout@mind.be> <20190925220223.12bc3db7@windsurf> <20190925204103.GG7274@scaer> <3ef870e5-4b17-e4c3-aa17-1bb69c911e99@mind.be> Message-ID: <20190926085536.3bfe0907@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:28:05 +0200 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > As much as I like to keep backward compatibility when it makes sense, > > external-deps has been broken for ~18 months now (since we moved > > downloads to sub-directories), and no one complained. It's even been in > > an LTS for 7 months now, and still no complain so far... > > > > Besides, show-info is a versatile and easily extendable solution to > > extract this kind of information from Buildroot. > > > > So, what's the point in keeping external-deps? > > Kill it with fire! Do we really want to do that? Remember that we removed source-check, and Thomas DS wanted to reintroduce it because it was useful in his use-case ? I'm all for dropping duplicated functionality to keep a sane code base and a clear user experience (when there's gazillions of ways to achieve the same thing, it's very confusing for users). But breaking stuff for existing users is not nice, and I know our BDFL is also not happy with breaking things. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com