[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 1/2] Add some common packages for x86-64 target.

[Adrian Panella]

I agree with having somehow a full build available for new users.
Now that "market" seems to be catered by custom images published by some in the Owrt forum and consumed by many who want a better router firmware but don't know how to build it, and most probably don't even want to know or take the time to set up all the environment to just build an image only once to flash the router and forget about it (for all this many end up using other "friendlier" projects, like I did myself for quite some time - without realizing what I was missing!).

As I see it the "buildme" script doesn't address that problem, as you still need to build.

I would take a different approach:

+ for the ones willing to actually build themselves I think than jow's idea of a good "how to" should do
+ for the rest (I'm assuming it's the majority) I would do a "full" or "moded" metapackage for each target with the most important extras (assuming a fair agreement can be reached on which are those).
That way anyone can just flash a nightly build and with just one "opkg" upgrade to a full build, closer to an "out of the box" experience without sacrificing much of the spirit, and with much less need for maintenance, and very little code.

The idea could be further elaborated - and perhaps it already was, and was discarded :).
Factory images (the entry point to LEDE for newcomers) could have at least a basic LUCI so that the "full" opkg installation could be easily done without needing to ssh into the router (in Windows even for that you need to install additional software to your PC).
For sysupgrade, once you are already with LEDE, I would add an option "download and reinstall currently installed packages" to complement the keep settings option. If one wants a really quick upgrade.

Sorry for the long mail. I found Owrt/LEDE a great product and easing its adoption is really worth. 


> El 01/06/2016, a las 1:26 p.m., Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
> To fork this discussion mildly, I would like to see a fuller build,
> including the luci gui, available, somehow, somewhere, so that newer
> users can get a working config "out of the box" from the daily builds.
> 
> Also, at least on the archer c7v2, the ath10k kmod and firmware were
> not included in the default build.
> 
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