Re: [PATCH 1/8] busybox: merge login-utilities.cfg into defconfig

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 16:20 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> The login-utilities.cfg busybox config fragment was added during the
> transition of the default login manager from tinylogin to busybox [1].
> The tinylogin recipe was removed from oe-core prior to the 1.5 (dora)
> release [2].
> 
> Merging the config fragment into defconfig simplifies the process of
> keeping the oe-core busybox defconfig aligned with new releases of
> busybox.
> 
>   [1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4207
>   [2] http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=2762ff976a3473be4259889029e048ab8b3be5ab
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>

I'm kind of torn on this. The original intent was to split up the
busybox config into more granular fragments so that rather that having
to provide a defconfig for it, you could just select the components you
wanted and your custom config on top of that.

If we do go down that route, it does imply a different kind of
maintenance of the config fragments is needed as we move forward. In
some ways I'd hope the fragment tools could help with that.

Obviously any more split up hasn't happened as yet and I know that
personally, given my workload I'm unlikely to find time soon :(. I'd be
interested to see what others think?

Cheers,

Richard