[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/20] core/pkg-generic: add variable to skip skeleton dependency
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Jul 23 09:12:30 UTC 2017
>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
>> Instead of checking for all the skeleton-providing packages in the core
>> infra, add a new package options so that packages can express they do
>> not need the dependency on the skeleton, like we have an option to avoid
>> the depednency on the toolchain. The only packages that will use that
>> option are probably the skeletons, so we need not document this
>> variable, like we did not document the option to exclude the dependency
>> on the toolchain.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
>> Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> I absolutely hate adding additional variables that are used for only a few
> packages, but I have no better ideas, so
An alternative could be to enforce a naming convention for these
packages, E.G. skeleton-*, and then use $(filter skeleton%,$(1)) in the
check, but I'm not sure that really is much nicer.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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