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

[Alex Suykov]

Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 03:35:09PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > 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?

No, none at present, so I'm dropping this idea completely.

> 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).

Ok, that was for the large part to match current .hash handling.
I wonder if it makes sense to move hashes into .mk files then, Arch-style.