Hi Micheal, > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Heimpold [mailto:m...@heimpold.de] > Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 6:29 PM > To: Y.b. Lu <yangbo...@nxp.com> > Cc: lede-dev@lists.infradead.org; Xiaobo Xie <xiaobo....@nxp.com>; > openwrt-de...@lists.openwrt.org; Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de>; > John Crispin <j...@phrozen.org> > Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] Layerscape package depending on libxml2 > > Hi, > > >> the mentioned PR included a few new packages. I don't know the > >> layerscape platform, so I just want to understand it: these packages > >> are all necessary to boot a "reasonable" > >> system? And this is true for fmc, too? > > > > [Y.b. Lu] fmc is an important userspace tool for layerscape which is > > frequently used and required by our key customers. > > my point is more whether it is absolutely not possible to boot up a layerscape > system without these tools/packages?
[Y.b. Lu] It's just an user space tool. It isn’t required for booting up. > > Or to bring a somewhat constructed use-case: PHP7 is frequently used and > required by most of my customers - however, this does not justify to move > PHP7 to core openwrt. [Y.b. Lu] Understand. Either Core openwrt or feed is ok for me as long as there is a place to put it 😊 > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not a core developer and this are just a few > thoughts... [Y.b. Lu] Thank you all the same for your help. > > Michael > > > > Fmc build and usage depends on several packages. They are tclap, > > fmlib, and eth-config which I added in the PR. Both fmlib and > > eth-config are only for layerscape. > > > >> > >> Then one option would be to move libxml2 to "core openwrt". > >> > >> If not, it would be an alternative approach to move the not really > >> important packages to packages feed, and add the fmc package in the > >> packages feed as well. This way, the dependency to libxml2 is solved > >> automatically and the "core openwrt" stays as small as reasonable. > >> > >> Or should we avoid packages in the package feed which have a strong > >> platform dependency? > > > > [Y.b. Lu] Thanks a lot for your good suggestion. Actually I tend to > > move libxml2 to core openwrt. > > > _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev