[LEDE-DEV] Layerscape package depending on libxml2

[Michael Heimpold]

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?

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.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a core developer and this are just
a few thoughts...

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.
>