manual: get rid of the lists of packages

We currently have four lists of packages in the manual:
  - the non-virtual target packages,
  - the virtual target packages,
  - the host packages,
  - the deprecated features.

Those list take more than half of the manual. They do not serve much
purpose except to show off.

After the recent discussion on the list [0], remove them all.

We can now get rid of our biggish and complex generating script (and its
companion library kconfiglib).

[0] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-September/171199.html

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 67 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt
index a5f17a262..6326bb545 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt
@@ -83,9 +83,6 @@ On line 3, we select +BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_SOMETHING_VIRTUAL+, and on line 11, we
 set the value of +BR2_PACKAGE_PROVIDES_SOMETHING_VIRTUAL+ to the name of the
 provider, but only if it is selected.
 
-See xref:virtual-package-list[] for the symbols to select if you implement
-a new provider for an existing virtual package.
-
 ==== Provider's +.mk+ file
 
 The +.mk+ file should also declare an additional variable
@@ -99,9 +96,6 @@ packages it is an implementation of:
 Of course, do not forget to add the proper build and runtime dependencies for
 this package!
 
-See xref:virtual-package-list[] for the names of virtual packages to provide
-if you implement a new provider for an existing virtual package.
-
 ==== Notes on depending on a virtual package
 
 When adding a package that requires a certain +FEATURE+ provided by a virtual
diff --git a/docs/manual/appendix.txt b/docs/manual/appendix.txt
index 87a20bd86..03dbbd113 100644
--- a/docs/manual/appendix.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/appendix.txt
@@ -3,40 +3,3 @@
 
 include::makedev-syntax.txt[]
 include::makeusers-syntax.txt[]
-
-
-// Automatically generated lists:
-
-[[package-list]]
-== List of target packages available in Buildroot
-
-include::package-list.txt[]
-
-[[virtual-package-list]]
-== List of virtual packages
-
-These are the virtual packages known to +Buildroot+, with the
-corresponding symbols and providers.
-
-include::virtual-package-list.txt[]
-
-[[host-package-list]]
-== List of host utilities available in Buildroot
-
-The following packages are all available in the menu +Host utilities+.
-
-include::host-package-list.txt[]
-
-[[deprecated-list]]
-== Deprecated features
-
-The following features are marked as _deprecated_ in Buildroot due to
-them being either too old or unmaintained. They will be removed at
-some point, so stop using them.
-Each deprecated symbol in kconfig depends on a symbol
-+BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx+, which provides an indication of when
-the feature can be removed: features will not be removed within the
-year following deprecation. For example, a symbol depending on
-+BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2013_05+ can be removed from 2014.05 onwards.
-
-include::deprecated-list.txt[]
diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.mk b/docs/manual/manual.mk
index b26f91234..1d03b213d 100644
--- a/docs/manual/manual.mk
+++ b/docs/manual/manual.mk
@@ -7,28 +7,4 @@
 MANUAL_SOURCES = $(sort $(wildcard docs/manual/*.txt) $(wildcard docs/images/*))
 MANUAL_RESOURCES = $(TOPDIR)/docs/images
 
-# Ensure the kconfig snippet is generated (for MANUAL_GEN_LISTS, below):
-MANUAL_DEPENDENCIES += prepare-kconfig
-
-# Our manual needs to generate lists
-define MANUAL_GEN_LISTS
-	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Updating the manual lists...")
-	$(Q)$(COMMON_CONFIG_ENV) \
-		BR2_DEFCONFIG="" \
-		TOPDIR=$(TOPDIR) \
-		O=$(@D) \
-		python -B $(TOPDIR)/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py
-endef
-MANUAL_POST_RSYNC_HOOKS += MANUAL_GEN_LISTS
-
-# Our list-generating script requires argparse
-define MANUAL_CHECK_LISTS_DEPS
-	$(Q)if ! python -c "import argparse" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then \
-		echo "You need python with argparse on your host to generate" \
-			"the list of packages in the manual"; \
-		exit 1; \
-	fi
-endef
-MANUAL_CHECK_DEPENDENCIES_HOOKS += MANUAL_CHECK_LISTS_DEPS
-
 $(eval $(call asciidoc-document))