The Buildroot user manual
buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.htmlBuildroot strives to make it easy to generate a root filesystem (hence the name, by the way.) That is what we want to make Buildroot good at: building root filesystems. Buildroot is not meant to be a distribution (or rather, a distribution generator.) It is the opinion of most Buildroot developers that this is not a goal we should pursue.
[OpenWrt Wiki] Creating packages
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/packages16.11.2021 · Creating packages See also -> Package Policy Guide, which contains a wealth of extra technical information not covered here. One of the things that we've attempted to do with OpenWrt's template system is make it incredibly easy to port software to OpenWrt. If you look at a typical package directory in OpenWrt you'll find three things: