Re: [PATCH 3/6] package.bbclass, package_ipk.bbclass: add dynamic depends on locale packages (ipk specific)

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

"Mike (mwester)" <mwester@dls.net> writes:

>> This looks like it will add locale dependencies to all the subpackages
>> (e.g. foo-doc, foo-dev and the like) as well as the main "foo" package,
>> which is a bit different to how the old code used to work.  But I guess
>> that's harmless enough: the worst effect will be to bloat the Packages
>> file a bit, and I doubt anybody will care too much.  So, thumbs up from
>> me.
>
> How much bloat?  Opkg already trips the OOM killer on the NSLU2 (32MB of
> RAM) when it loads the current Packages file and then tries to do
> something; we can work around it for now, but if this doubles the size
> in-memory, we may simply not have enough RAM to do whatever it is that
> opkg does with all that in-memory.
>
> I have grave concerns over anything that adds unnecessary entries that
> cannot be turned off.

Personally I don't think any bloat needs to be pushed and with that in
mind I think we could then rework it to be enabled by default but
disabled using a variable.

What people think? I'd also be interested in a BitBake expert comment
about it all.

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