[Buildroot] [V2 2/2] graph-depends: add an option --stop-on-virtual
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Mar 9 20:15:08 UTC 2015
Dear François Perrad,
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 20:32:16 +0100, François Perrad wrote:
> I agree with you.
> The graphs become quickly too large.
> The current option --depth seems to be only a workaround against an
> infinite recursion when the graph has a cycle.
Well, I don't really think --depth is meant to avoid infinite
recursion: I don't think it's possible to have infinite recursion since
we can't have cyclic dependencies in Buildroot.
> But at this time, we haven't found the good way (or the good use
> cases) to limit the size of the graph.
I believe being able to exclude certain packages (and their dependency
tree) would be useful.
Best regards,
Thomas
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