Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-07 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 6:47 PM, Yousong Zhou wrote: > > The usefulness of such availability only makes sense when it is going > to at least have an actual user. Feel free to bring it up in another > occasion if you find it necessary to achieve your goals there ;) The "user" in this case is any

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-07 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 8 March 2017 at 08:52, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:06 AM, Matthias Schiffer >> wrote: >> >> This could also avoid adding host UCI support to the build system, making >> the whole patchset a lot smaller. > > > Host support for UCI is useful to have anyway, for other re

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-07 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:06 AM, Matthias Schiffer > wrote: > > This could also avoid adding host UCI support to the build system, making the > whole patchset a lot smaller. Host support for UCI is useful to have anyway, for other reasons… not something to avoid doing (not clear if you were ag

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-07 Thread Matthias Schiffer
On 03/06/2017 05:27 PM, Yousong Zhou wrote: > On 5 March 2017 at 23:06, Matthias Schiffer > wrote: >> On 03/05/2017 10:31 AM, Yousong Zhou wrote: >>> This patch set tries to make it possible that files serving the same purpose >>> and installed to different locations can be available under the sam

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-06 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 5 March 2017 at 23:06, Matthias Schiffer wrote: > On 03/05/2017 10:31 AM, Yousong Zhou wrote: >> This patch set tries to make it possible that files serving the same purpose >> and installed to different locations can be available under the same name >> through a symbolic link >> >> The idea is

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-05 Thread Matthias Schiffer
On 03/05/2017 10:31 AM, Yousong Zhou wrote: > This patch set tries to make it possible that files serving the same purpose > and installed to different locations can be available under the same name > through a symbolic link > > The idea is from alternatives of debian system [1,2]. "ip" command i

[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/12] alternatives support

2017-03-05 Thread Yousong Zhou
This patch set tries to make it possible that files serving the same purpose and installed to different locations can be available under the same name through a symbolic link The idea is from alternatives of debian system [1,2]. "ip" command is a good example of the problem it tries to solve [3].