[OE-core] Proposal: recipe feature switches

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/7/1 Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>

>
> Op 1 jul 2011, om 10:55 heeft Frans Meulenbroeks het volgende geschreven:
>
> >
> > Good idea.
> > Personally I'd like to also bring footprint into the equation. If a
> feature drags in lots of additional packages, it is interesting to make it
> configurable.
> > My favourite example: bluez dragging in all kind of rendering stuff
> (through DEPENDS) even though the hardware functionality might not be there
> (e.g. you have BT but not audio).
>
> Which is a great example, since that doesn't impact footprint at all, it's
> an alsa *plugin* that will get produced.
>
>
> bluez.inc:DEPENDS = "gstreamer gst-plugins-base dbus glib-2.0"

I don't think gstreamer is really needed or desired if you e.g. just want to
do some tethering over bluetooth, or in my case, connect to a BT HID, and
they do contribute to both the build time and the footprint.

Frans.
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