[Buildroot] [RFC 02/11] per-package .users and .files lists

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 21/03/15 19:27, Alex Suykov wrote:
> This change does not simplify things much at present, but it
> removes inter-package dependency via make variables.
> Without this patch, reading all enabled package/*/*.mk files from
> a single Makefile was necessary to build user and permission lists.

 But we're not planning to change that... Running a separate make per package
sounds like a terribly bad idea...

> With this patch, the data is stored outside of make, possibly
> allowing one make invocation per package .mk file in the future.

 So, is there any reason left to move USERS and PERMS to a file?

 It has one big disadvantage: it spreads out the package logic over different
files. We currently only have a separate file for the hashes, and that was
probably a bad idea to begin with (as witnessed by the many version bumps that
forget to update the hash file).


 Regards,
 Arnout
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