[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] jq: enable host package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 21 21:20:20 UTC 2015


Arnout,

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:04:21 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  I was thinking the same thing when I say the patch, but I don't care enough to
> really comment on it. It's a bit similar to packages that depend on some host
> preprocessing tool, like flex. But then of course we just have a dependency and
> not a Config.in.host.

To me, host packages that are a dependency of some other target
packages have a real and strong reason to exist. The ones that don't
should really fall into the "useful for debugging, flashing or
preparing images" category IMO.

>  OTOH, if we accept this, it kind of opens the doors to support almost
> everything as a host package. But maybe there's nothing wrong with that either.

Opening the door to almost everything as a host package is personally
something that I'd like to avoid.

Thomas
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