From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:13:21 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Some topics for the Buildroot Developer Day In-Reply-To: <20111025082432.196d59aa@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:24:32 +0200") References: <20111024173815.2277c6dd@skate> <20111025082432.196d59aa@skate> Message-ID: <871uu1y25q.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, Thomas> But I still do remember that it was working just fine on autotargets Thomas> packages, but was causing problems on gentargets packages. And there Thomas> were also other problems here and there, and the whole thing was making Thomas> Buildroot a lot more complicated. I really think we need to keep a Thomas> "simplicity first" rule for Buildroot. There are already other very Thomas> elaborate build systems, with package management and al., and it Thomas> doesn't make sense if Buildroot becomes as complicated as those build Thomas> systems. I strongly agree. I'm wondering if we could somehow get rid of the explicit handling of both staging and target (similar to how we do it for host packages), and simply exclude some files from staging when we create the file systems. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard