[OE-core] Why qemu-config RDPENDS on distcc ?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 20 mrt. 2012, om 13:05 heeft Robert Yang het volgende geschreven:

> 
> On 03/20/2012 05:43 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Tuesday 20 March 2012 16:42:41 Robert Yang wrote:
>>> I'm just curious that qemu-config RDPENDS on distcc:
>>> 
>>> meta/recipes-bsp/qemu-config/qemu-config.bb:RDEPENDS_${PN} = "distcc ..."
>>> 
>>> And there are 4 processes named "distcc" running after boot the target
>>> with "runqemu qemux86".
>>> 
>>> We have distcc on the target, but no gcc or g++, can we remove it from
>>> qemu-config's RDEPENDS?
>> 
>> I think the idea was that if you wanted to do compilation on the emulated
>> target, having distcc would let you do it with much better performance. I
>> agree it seems that it's not particularly useful if you're never going to do
>> any compilation on the target though.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for your reply, so may I send a pull request to remove it from
> qemu-config's RDPENDS?

I'll argue that qemu-config should be an image choice, not a machine choice :)

regards,

Koen