[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/24] Drop unused host packages
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jul 2 10:33:05 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 12:18:30 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> That automatic derivation of dependencies of host packages sounded like a good
> idea at the time, but it can really bite you. Of the 200 host packages that we
> have at the moment, there are just 64 that use the inheritance - and many of
> them are in Julien's list here (possibly incorrectly).
>
> So, as the person who introduced this mis-feature, I'm the first one to vote
> for removing it again.
I agree that this automatic derivation has caused quite a few issues in
the past and in many cases, we need different dependencies for the host
and the target variants. So maybe we should think of removing this
functionality.
Thomas
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