[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 6/7] tpm2-tools: do not enforce dependency on tpm2-abrmd

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Jan 25 15:03:49 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >  For the situations like the one in this patch, I would say that we could relax
 > a little the 'avoid extra per-package configuration options'. In fact, extra
 > configuration options in Config.in don't cost that much. They don't really make
 > the menus larger because they're only visible when the package is selected. And
 > the .mk handling is the same as for an automatic optional dependency. That said,
 > in this specific case of tpm2-tools, I have the feeling that an additional
 > option is not appropriate. Since the two packages are right next to each other,
 > that is almost the same as having the suboption. So I would go for the help text
 > instead.

Ok, I'll send an updated patch that drops the select and adds a note in
the help text instead.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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