[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] connman: Upgrade to version 0.75

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 jun 2011, om 11:34 heeft Anders Darander het volgende geschreven:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:12, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:08 +0800, Dongxiao Xu wrote:
>>> -DEPENDS  = "libgdbus dbus glib-2.0 hal iptables"
>>> -RDEPENDS_${PN} = "wpa-supplicant resolvconf"
>>> +DEPENDS  = "libgdbus dbus glib-2.0 hal iptables ofono wpa-supplicant resolvconf bluez4"
>> 
>> What does the dependency stack for ofono look like?  If it's non-trivial
>> then I am not sure it is a good idea to add ofono to DEPENDS
>> unconditionally.
> 
> Although Koen showed that the dependcies were quite trivial, I'd
> prefer to not build ofono if it is possible.
> 
>> Ditto bluez4, I don't think that should be in there unless
>> DISTRO_FEATURES requested it.
> 
> Yes, I certainly agree with you on bluez4. If we don't have bluetooth
> enabled for our machine/distro, I definitely prefere to not build it.
> 
> To me it's not only about the risk that we increase the rootfs, but
> also about build-times. Even if we have quite fast machines today, it
> is a waste of CPU cycles to build lots of SW that aren't going to be
> used...
> 
> Adding a dependency etc is easily done in a bbappen-file, which makes
> the reversed desire quite easy. I'm not sure if there is an easy way
> of removing item from e.g. DEPENDS and EXTRA_OECONF etc.

I'd trade extra build time over not having to use bbappends anytime. Especially where upstream has proper plugin support like connman.