[Buildroot] [PATCH] Added local package support.

[Simon Dawson]

On 27 July 2012 09:12, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> I am also a bit skeptical, but it's not yet a final and definitive
> opinion. Custom packages is one thing, but one also very often need to
> put stuff in board/ to keep kernel config, patches and various other
> stuff, though it's true nothing prevent you to use $(TOPDIR)/../ to
> keep track of all those things.

I can sort of see that this might be useful. But I wonder if there's a
more subtle sociological reason not to add the local package support.
Specifically, does it encourage a culture of users building up
stockpiles of local packages, because that's perceived to be "how you
add support for a package in Buildroot"? If so, then users might be
less likely to push their new packages upstream to Buildroot, and the
community as a whole loses out.

Maybe that's overthinking it somewhat though.

Simon.