[OE-core] [PATCH 15/28] packagegroup-base: remove openswan from packagegroup-base-ipsec

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Mon Sep 3 16:25:35 UTC 2012


Op 3 sep. 2012, om 12:54 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Monday 03 September 2012 11:50:01 Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:37 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> On Monday 03 September 2012 11:35:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:30 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>>>> openswan was only ever provided in unmaintained form in meta-demoapps
>>>>> which has been removed, so we never really provided it in OE-Core.
>>>> 
>>>> Isn't packagegroup-base-ipsec rather useless without it?
>>> 
>>> If you ignore the RRECOMMENDS line that follows, yes.
>> 
>> Is there a meaningful use-case where installing kernel-module-ipsec
>> without any user-space support is a desirable thing to do?  And, even if
>> the answer is yes, is it really valuable to have a
>> packagegroup-base-ipsec which just recommends a single other package
>> without doing anything else?
> 
> The idea is supposed to be that just having "ipsec" in DISTRO_FEATURES brings 
> in what we can to support IPsec, assuming your image uses packagegroup-base 
> that is.

Isn't that an IMAGE_FEATURE?



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