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xbmc: Add comment for host-sdl_images dependency

Message ID 1395960046-26648-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit 9cfd429c1c3d6c7b793f58210f39bb041e680bac
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Maxime Hadjinlian March 27, 2014, 10:40 p.m. UTC
A few people have already asked why XBMC depends on host-sdl_image and
host-sdl.

Since this is not obvious, this patch add a comments explaining why it's
needed.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
---
 package/xbmc/xbmc.mk | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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Peter Korsgaard March 27, 2014, 10:49 p.m. UTC | #1
>>>>> "Maxime" == Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> writes:

 > A few people have already asked why XBMC depends on host-sdl_image and
 > host-sdl.

 > Since this is not obvious, this patch add a comments explaining why it's
 > needed.

 > Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>

Committed, thanks.
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diff --git a/package/xbmc/xbmc.mk b/package/xbmc/xbmc.mk
index a43b41d..6dbbb7d 100644
--- a/package/xbmc/xbmc.mk
+++ b/package/xbmc/xbmc.mk
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@  XBMC_VERSION = 12.3-Frodo
 XBMC_SITE = $(call github,xbmc,xbmc,$(XBMC_VERSION))
 XBMC_LICENSE = GPLv2
 XBMC_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.GPL
+# XBMC needs host-sdl_image (and therefore host-sdl) for a host tools it builds
+# called TexturePacker. It is responsible to take all the images used in the
+# GUI and pack them in a blob.
+# http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=TexturePacker
 XBMC_DEPENDENCIES = host-gperf host-lzo host-sdl_image host-swig
 XBMC_DEPENDENCIES += boost bzip2 expat flac fontconfig freetype jasper jpeg \
 	libass libcdio libcurl libfribidi libgcrypt libmad libmodplug libmpeg2 \