[Buildroot] [PATCH/next] makedevs: remove target package
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 23 22:12:28 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:14:04 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> The makedevs package is a fork of the makedevs tool from busybox. It is
> part of the Buildroot infrastructure, not something that should be used
> on the target. It something like this is needed on the target, upstream
> busybox should be used. And if one of the Buildroot-specific features
> is needed, then that feature should be upstreamed to busybox.
>
> Besides, there were already two things wrong with the target package:
> - it didn't take into account the overlap with busybox (no depends on
> BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS, no dependency on busybox);
> - it didn't take into account the libcap feature.
>
> The target package was introduced more or less accidentally in 81cd9d45
> where the intention was to make it more similar to other packages.
>
> So, kill it with fire.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> ---
> No biggy for me, I just noticed "Hey, this is weird...".
> ---
> Config.in.legacy | 7 +++++++
> package/Config.in | 1 -
> package/makedevs/Config.in | 5 -----
> package/makedevs/makedevs.mk | 10 ----------
> 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 package/makedevs/Config.in
Applied to next, thanks.
Thomas
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