[oe] [PATCH] busybox: add suport for FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL setup

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Roman I Khimov <roman at khimov.ru> wrote:
> В сообщении от Понедельник 12 июля 2010 22:34:48 автор Khem Raj написал:
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Roman I Khimov <khimov at altell.ru> wrote:
>> > Where each applet is installed as a tiny binary linked against shared
>> > libbusybox.
>>
>> may be it should be a DISTRO_FEATURE in OE
>
> Well, I don't think so. First, it doesn't change anything functional, only the
> way busybox is linked/installed/packaged and second is that it only affects
> one package, so if distro wants that, I think it should maintain its own
> defconfig (at least four distros do that already

ok in that case, it seems ok. This makes it a distro feature.

 and IMO busybox is the
> package you want to tune for your specific needs). Or the distro itself may
> choose not to use busybox at all so such FEATURE would make no sense in that
> case.
>
> I view FEATUREs as a way to make distro-global configuration, ipv6 is probably
> one of the best examples as it potentially affects many packages.
> FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL is completely busybox-specific.

if a distro does not support shared libraries then this feature is a problem.
but then if we tune it in busybox config then even that can be taken care of
so seems fine.

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