[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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