Re: [LEDE-DEV] What's the purpose / gain from using VARIANT?

2016-12-08 Thread Rafał Miłecki
On 8 December 2016 at 02:00, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 12/07/2016 11:52 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> On 12/07/2016 08:36 PM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: I'm aware some packages (e.g. upstream-ssl,

Re: [LEDE-DEV] What's the purpose / gain from using VARIANT?

2016-12-07 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 12/07/2016 11:52 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 12/07/2016 08:36 PM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> I'm aware some packages (e.g. upstream-ssl, hostapd, dnsmasq) use >>> VARIANT. >>> >>> I don't really understand the gain of

Re: [LEDE-DEV] What's the purpose / gain from using VARIANT?

2016-12-07 Thread Sergey Ryazanov
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 12/07/2016 08:36 PM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> I'm aware some packages (e.g. upstream-ssl, hostapd, dnsmasq) use >>> VARIANT. >>> >>> I don't

Re: [LEDE-DEV] What's the purpose / gain from using VARIANT?

2016-12-07 Thread Rafał Miłecki
On 12/07/2016 08:36 PM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: I'm aware some packages (e.g. upstream-ssl, hostapd, dnsmasq) use VARIANT. I don't really understand the gain of this. How does it differ from specifying separated packages?

Re: [LEDE-DEV] What's the purpose / gain from using VARIANT?

2016-12-07 Thread Sergey Ryazanov
Hello Rafał, On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > I'm aware some packages (e.g. upstream-ssl, hostapd, dnsmasq) use VARIANT. > > I don't really understand the gain of this. How does it differ from > specifying separated packages? > I'm looking at

[LEDE-DEV] What's the purpose / gain from using VARIANT?

2016-12-07 Thread Rafał Miłecki
I'm aware some packages (e.g. upstream-ssl, hostapd, dnsmasq) use VARIANT. I don't really understand the gain of this. How does it differ from specifying separated packages? I'm looking at package/libs/ustream-ssl/Makefile and I don't see much code saving from using this VARIANT variable/feature.