From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 07:16:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] gpsd: Add config options for USB, Bluetooth, Qt. In-Reply-To: <20130523211223.59edf1b8@skate> References: <1369320181-6069-1-git-send-email-arnerro@gmail.com> <20130523165601.5fc0fe15@skate> <20130523174630.0c7efe41@skate> <519E67FA.8060608@mind.be> <20130523211223.59edf1b8@skate> Message-ID: <519EF7CB.30801@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 23/05/13 21:12, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >>> > >Maybe (2) is what makes sense here. The cost of new options in terms of >>> > >maintenance is not so high, >> > >> > You forgot about updating the 'depends on' statements when a suboption >> >wants to select e.g. glib... > Hum, not sure to understand what you meant here. Did you mean > "propagate the 'depends on'" from the selected package into the > selecting package, for dependencies on toolchain features and things > like that? Yes indeed. And the maintenance effort is to keep that up-to-date when heavily used libraries grow new dependencies. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F