[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] graph-depends: add an option --stop-on-virtual

[François Perrad]

2015-01-02 11:21 GMT+01:00 Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Francois Perrad,
>
> On Fri,  2 Jan 2015 09:49:33 +0100, Francois Perrad wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
>> ---
>>  docs/manual/common-usage.txt  |  3 +++
>>  support/scripts/graph-depends | 11 +++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> Why would we want to stop on virtual packages? I don't really see the
> use case for this additional option.
>

On package point of view (not for a whole configuration),
for example, with a package which depends on OpenGL, it is not useful
to see the dependencies of a specific implementation of OpenGL,
because they depend on hardware and not on the package.

The graph of dependencies becomes quickly too large,
I think to another option which doesn't display host dependencies
but just target dependencies.

François

> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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