[OE-core] [PATCH 01/11] libpcap: Add missing libusb dependency
Richard Purdie
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 24 22:49:09 UTC 2013
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 15:42 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Do we need libusb support in libpcap? What does this
> dependency buy us
> > and couldn't we force it off instead?
>
>
> its needed to support canusb in libpcap, I would say yes we
> should
> support it but disabling it would be ok too although all my
> builds
> were silently using libusb so I think unknowingly may be but
> we are
> already shipping with canusb support.
>
> I'd personally prefer it disabled, but I'd think at the very least it
> should be a PACKAGECONFIG entry, whether its included in the default
> value of PACKAGECONFIG itself or not.
>
Agreed, PACKAGECONFIG, default off is the way to go with this IMO too.
Cheers,
Richard
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