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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:00:53 +0200
From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
To: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should btmgmt be installed?
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Hi Pacho,

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> Some people downstream is asking us to install btmgmt utility but, for
> some reason, it looks like upstream makefile rules don't install it. Is
> that being missed on purpose? Should Makefiles be fixed to get it
> installed or that utility is not meant to be installed in users
> systems?

I think this is mostly because of historical reasons. The btmgmt tool
wasn't created for anything else except a developer testing tool
initially. It's still supposed to be just a developer tool, but if
people have good reasons to use it then I don't personally have anything
against making it installable through the makefile rules. Someone should
just send a patch for it. That said, Marcel might have a differing
opinion on the matter (though his silence so far is promising ;)

Johan