[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4 v2] manual: get rid of the lists of packages

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2016-09-04 15:20 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun,  4 Sep 2016 00:58:43 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > Those list take more than half of the manual. They do not serve much
> > purpose except to show off. The only one that is interesting is the list
> > of virtual packages, the associated symbols and their providers.
> 
> I would like to challenge the fact that the list of virtual packages is
> more useful than the rest of the list.
> 
> virtual packages are purely internal things, you only need to know
> about virtual packages when you're adding new packages in Buildroot.
> And when you're adding new packages in Buildroot, you have far enough
> experience to do a "git grep virtual-package" and find which ones are
> available.

Of course, I do not agree! ;-)

But do I care enough to argue? Certainly not. I tend to be less
interested in making things easy/easier for the users nowadays... :-/

I'll send an updated patch that removes all the lists altogether.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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