[Buildroot] [RFC 3/3] infra: remove auto derivation of host dependencies

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 02-07-16 20:48, Julien Floret wrote:
> This feature consists in automatically deducing dependencies of host
> variant of a package from the dependencies of the target variant.
> 
> However, it causes some issues, and many host packages need different
> dependencies than their target variants.
> 
> Now that host dependencies are explicitly set for all packages, we can
> remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Floret <julien.floret at 6wind.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

> ---
>  package/pkg-autotools.mk |  9 ---------
>  package/pkg-cmake.mk     |  7 -------
>  package/pkg-generic.mk   |  4 ----
>  package/pkg-python.mk    | 15 ---------------
>  package/pkg-rebar.mk     | 14 --------------
>  package/pkg-virtual.mk   |  7 -------
>  6 files changed, 56 deletions(-)

 Wow, so removing this antifeature deletes about the same number of lines as
have to be added to explicitly specify the dependencies...

 Another thing that has to be done is to remove the empty dependencies
definitions that are added to avoid the automatic inheritance:

git grep 'DEPENDENCIES =$' -- \*.mk
-> 15 files, with an additional comment line, 30 more lines removed...

 Regards,
 Arnout

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