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From: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:19:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <md3ub4$594$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150302102611.GY2309@jama>

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Martin Jansa schreef op 02-03-15 om 11:26:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:22:30AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: Martin Jansa
> schreef op 02-03-15 om 09:02:
>>>> * useful to run our qemu* builds inside VirtualBox
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com> --- 
>>>> .../vboxguestdrivers/Makefile.utils                | 43
>>>> ++++++++++++++ .../vboxguestdrivers/vboxguestdrivers_4.3.22.bb    |
>>>> 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>>>> +PACKAGES += "kernel-module-vboxguest kernel-module-vboxsf 
>>>> kernel-module-vboxvideo" +RDEPENDS_${PN} +=
>>>> "kernel-module-vboxguest kernel-module-vboxsf
>>>> kernel-module-vboxvideo"
> 
> Please don't ever RDEPEND on kernel modules, even when the recipe will
> build them, it sets a bad precedent.
> 
>> I think it makes sense in this case.. nobody will ever include them in 
>> kernel image and vboxguestdrivers utils don't make much sense without 
>> the modules installed.

I agree completely with that, my objection is setting a bad precedent that
people will copy/paste into other recipes.
I see v2 has RRECOMMENDS, thank you for changing it.

regards,

Koen

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-03  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-02  8:02 [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos Martin Jansa
2015-03-02 10:22 ` Koen Kooi
2015-03-02 10:26   ` Martin Jansa
2015-03-02 10:55     ` Florian Boor
2015-03-02 11:33       ` Martin Jansa
2015-03-03  9:19     ` Koen Kooi [this message]

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