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

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 22-10-15 10:22, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I don't think that we would open the door to 'almost every package' as
> host package. For many packages, it makes no sense to have them as
> host package in the context of buildroot, say audio/video,
> profiling/benchmark, hardware handling, mail, miscellaneous,
> networking apps, ...
> In fact, I would argue that almost none of the packages we have in
> Buildroot make sense as host packages, except those that we already
> have, and a few limited categories of tools. In my opinion, one such
> category could be config file handling, and host-jq fits into that
> category. It's the type of thing one can reasonably need to put
> together filestystem images for embedded devices, especially in
> environments where many (variants of) devices are being developed.

 So that basically puts jq into the 'image generation' category for you :-)

 Note that personally I don't have much of a problem with adding more host
packages, I don't think they tend to add much of a maintenance burden.

 Regards,
 Arnout



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