From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f178.google.com (mail-qk0-f178.google.com [209.85.220.178]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E814F6AB9F for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qkeo142 with SMTP id o142so69150070qke.1 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2015 02:13:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=139Lz3e+XWPdcMDEl4jAFaKlafVoSszpNRTOe+teFPk=; b=iUtXyqj7u9oKIA2XbW1nU4drKHpdlVu89GHrMPBklk8j0mzBGm5K5b4/jNLa1FE7hY UHPSVANG/5PAq7IwTC5ePMzUDM3f90fAT7uNw3n56whVsHKa+uSjmCwFLMeKFA0Z0t4L xyCbsVidjay4GoY7YC4hKilCUDQb4qtSvbkLHd13xBf/1y1XiyPgu5nT0rpwL0gmr1Qg EC1UGNb6ZDE+YseQGnnBviIRETateck7283f5SE7qKcFOnp783IlPTBy3ghGGG8JKupA 8tfD2ty2DcMAYk6/PWp0+bYIifiNPYiE69QK09sfo5VHHl067gp4cbXtOJDZuVpNZm0P YndQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnkh9en0Y4j2wC2zdXHhNg/7CCqoTWNwYCYFzA5xZLOFqfcHMwf60ISQsQpKHJsnTflD1Jh X-Received: by 10.55.18.197 with SMTP id 66mr53132291qks.13.1435914832344; Fri, 03 Jul 2015 02:13:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.102.231 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:13:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150703090405.GA2436@jama> References: <1435737141-31961-1-git-send-email-jackie.huang@windriver.com> <1B858668EC6A94408DCA5225FDFA85AAF11F6D32@ALA-MBB.corp.ad.wrs.com> <20150703090405.GA2436@jama> From: "Burton, Ross" Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:13:32 +0100 Message-ID: To: Martin Jansa Cc: OE-core Subject: Re: [PATCH] xorg-proto-common: allow the empty package X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:13:54 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11474faa828c920519f4f9ec --001a11474faa828c920519f4f9ec Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 3 July 2015 at 10:04, Martin Jansa wrote: > I as a customer would definitely prefer error message even later in the > build then getting completely useless empty package installed in my > image and blame you for installing it when I was expecting to find > bigreqsproto in my rootfs. > Agreed. Installing bigreqsproto and not getting anything is far more annoying than the error and following epiphany that if you want the development headers for bigreqsproto you should install bigreqsproto-dev. Ross --001a11474faa828c920519f4f9ec Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 3 July 2015 at 10:04, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>= wrote:
I as a customer would definitely prefer error= message even later in the
build then getting completely useless empty package installed in my
image and blame you for installing it when I was expecting to find
bigreqsproto in my rootfs.

Agreed.=C2=A0 Instal= ling bigreqsproto and not getting anything is far more annoying than the er= ror and following epiphany that if you want the development headers for big= reqsproto you should install bigreqsproto-dev.

Ross
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