[Buildroot] [PATCH v2, 2/2] package/jq: add oniguruma optional dependency

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sun Mar 31 13:33:11 UTC 2019


On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:27:38 +0200
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> > What decided you to add onigurama as a mandatory dependency for
> > host-jq ? What feature does it bring ? Do we really need it as a
> > mandatory dependency ?  
> I decided to keep it because it's enabled by default in upstream but I
> can send a v2 without it as no package depends on this feature.

We normally try to keep the dependencies as minimal as possible, so
until we have a use-case for this, I'd prefer to not have this
dependency for the host variant.

This means the onigurama package should only add a target variant.

Thanks!

Thomas
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