[Buildroot] [PATCH] distcc: deprecate package, only useful for development

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Feb 22 20:27:35 UTC 2014


Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:25:38 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  > Since quite a while, we have deprecated, and then removed the support
>  > to build a compiler on the target. Therefore, having a distcc package
>  > for the package is quite useless, and this patch consequently marks it
>  > as deprecated so it can be removed in a future version of Buildroot.
> 
>  > Fixes:
> 
>  >   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/16b/16be2138c8e5ba785fa2ad55b478dcd1b6fb5123/
> 
> It doesn't really fix the error, but ok.

Right, but is it worth fixing build issues for packages that are
completely useless? :-)

Thomas
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