[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] package/pkg-utils.mk: add dl_dir to show-info output

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Sep 26 06:55:36 UTC 2019


On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:28:05 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

> > As much as I like to keep backward compatibility when it makes sense,
> > external-deps has been broken for ~18 months now (since we moved
> > downloads to sub-directories), and no one complained. It's even been in
> > an LTS for 7 months now, and still no complain so far...
> > 
> > Besides, show-info is a versatile and easily extendable solution to
> > extract this kind of information from Buildroot.
> > 
> > So, what's the point in keeping external-deps?  
> 
>  Kill it with fire!

Do we really want to do that? Remember that we removed source-check,
and Thomas DS wanted to reintroduce it because it was useful in his
use-case ?

I'm all for dropping duplicated functionality to keep a sane code base
and a clear user experience (when there's gazillions of ways to achieve
the same thing, it's very confusing for users). But breaking stuff for
existing users is not nice, and I know our BDFL is also not happy with
breaking things.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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