[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/11 v3] Add list of virtual packages to manual (branch yem/manual)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 8 15:12:56 UTC 2014


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sun,  8 Jun 2014 16:15:13 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> This series intends to add the list of virtual packages to the manual, for
> three reasons:
> 
>   - for users that are told (in a comment in the menuconfig) that a
>     package they need depends on a virtual package, to know what provider
>     to select,
> 
>   - for people writing a new provider for an existing virtual package to
>     have a reference of which symbol to select and which package to provide
>     in their Config.in and .mk files,
> 
>   - for people writing a new package that depends on features provided by
>     a virtual package to know what symbol to depend on.
> 
> The series starts with some preparatory changes and cleanups, then
> introduces a way to generate different forms of tables, then goes on by
> removing virtual packages from the current lists, and finally adds a new
> list with the virtual packages.

Thanks, series applied!

Thomas
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