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

[Robert Yang]

On 03/20/2012 08:19 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> 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 :)
>

I'm sorry, but what does the "qemu-config should be an image choice, not a
machine choice" mean, please?

// Robert

> regards,
>
> Koen
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