From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:50:22 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v3] core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet In-Reply-To: <20160827161601.2fd0e8f5@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:16:01 +0200") References: <20160827161601.2fd0e8f5@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87poosaa9d.fsf@dell.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: > Hello, > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:34:26 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> +.PHONY: $(BUILD_DIR)/.br2-external.in > Why is a real file that exists on the filesystem a phony target? >> +# Ensure the kconfig snippet is generated (for MANUAL_GEN_LISTS, below): >> +MANUAL_DEPENDENCIES += prepare-kconfig > It's a bit crazy the complexity that we have just to allow our manual > to have the list of all packages in Buildroot. I'm not even sure this > section of the manual is that useful, to be honest. But oh well, that's > supported today, so we have to continue support it. Why do we _HAVE_ to continue to support it? If we don't find the complexity worth the added value (I personally don't, I think we could just ask people to look under package/ for the list of packages), then we should just remove it. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard