Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:54:30 +0100 | From | "Leon Woestenberg" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. |
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Hello all,
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote: > Before 2.6.25 (specifically git bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 ) > building a Linux kernel never required perl to be installed on the build > system. (Various development and debugging scripts were written in perl and > python and such, but they weren't involved in actually building a kernel.) > Building a kernel before 2.6.25 could be done with a minimal system built from > gcc, binutils, bash, make, busybox, uClibc, and the Linux kernel, and nothing > else. (Embedded developers creating clean cross compile environments that >
I agree with Rob that the amount of required dependencies should be kept to a minimum.
If we only use 0.5% of a certain language (or: dependent package), then rather implement that 0.5% in the existing language.
Dependencies very quickly become dependency hell. If A requires B, then A also inherits all (future) requirements of B, etc. etc.
In my daily software development work with Linux and GNU software in general, 10% of it is spent fighting/removing these extremely "thin" or false depencies, so that it is usuable in embedded devices.
Regards, -- Leon
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