[LEDE-DEV] Layerscape package depending on libxml2

[Y.b. Lu]

Hi Micheal,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Heimpold [mailto:mhei at heimpold.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 6:29 PM
> To: Y.b. Lu <yangbo.lu at nxp.com>
> Cc: lede-dev at lists.infradead.org; Xiaobo Xie <xiaobo.xie at nxp.com>;
> openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org; Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>;
> John Crispin <john at 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.
> >
>