[Buildroot] [PATCH v8 07/12] e2fsprogs: refactor to fix conflicts with busybox and util-linux

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 22-04-17 15:03, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:59:50 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle
> (Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> 
>> +# If both e2fsprogs and busybox are selected, make certain e2fsprogs
>> +# wins the fight over who gets to have their utils actually installed
>> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX),y)
>> +E2FSPROGS_DEPENDENCIES += busybox
>> +endif
> 
> We recently had a ncurses/busybox discussion, in which to solve a
> circular dependency problem we removed such a dependency on Busybox. As
> part of this discussion, we started thinking about whether we should
> stop using the solution of depending on busybox to allow a package to
> override Busybox applets, and instead make sure the corresponding
> applets in Busybox are disabled when another package will install the
> full featured version of the program.
> 
> Should we generalize this idea, and apply it to e2fsprogs as well?

 Yes, but it should be a separate patch. This patch basically preserves the
existing behaviour of overriding the busybox versions. Note that the dependency
is redundant because we already depend on util-linux which depends on busybox
(for the same reason).


 Regards,
 Arnout

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