Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29 v2] package: improve for better pulseview integration (branch yem/sdcc-fx2lafw)

From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Kamel Bouhara <kamel.bouhara@gmail.com>,
	Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@datacom.com.br>,
	Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klaus@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org, Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29 v2] package: improve for better pulseview integration (branch yem/sdcc-fx2lafw)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:01:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aATwLalWft-mg11L@landeda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250419171732.356b2676@windsurf>

Thomas, All,

On 2025-04-19 17:17 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed,  9 Apr 2025 22:03:42 +0200
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > This series aims at making the pulseview and other sigrok-related
> > packages more integrated. The series is articulated around three main
> > goals, the details of which are expanded later:
> >  1. cleanup and extend pulseview dependencies, notably the need for
> >     fonts;
> >  2. extend the boost package, for a better host variant, and better
> >     maintainability;
> >  3. introduce sdcc and fx2lafw, to allow use of Cypress FX2-based logic
> >     analyzers.
[--SNIP--]
> First topic is the some-font package and this whole idea that all font
> packages should at least install some font.

I realise I did not address that first part earler, so there it is: if a
font package is enabled, then it does not make sense that it installs no
font at all; hence, when a package is enabled, we want to ensure that it
does by default install something.

This is the same situation as we get for other packages that may
optionally install multiple things, for exmple fftw, where we ensure at
least one variant thereof is enabled (commit 7883e559991); there are
quite a few other similar packages: civetweb, gkrellm, gpsd, jack2,
libcamera, libiio, linux-tools/hv, minetest, host-qemu, xen,
zxing-cpp...

This does not require that the 'some-font' pseudo-package be introduced,
by the way (but 'some-font' does require it, of course).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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