Re: [PATCH 0/5] Enable VPN support in ConnMan

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 13 May 2013 11:00:56 Saul Wold wrote:
> On 05/12/2013 10:55 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 May 2013 19:54:50 Phil Blundell wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 08:40 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> >>> On 05/12/2013 06:27 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >>>> I think so, it'd be good to have it in oe-core and allow use of vpn :)
> >>> 
> >>> I would like to see what the full dependency set looks like for these,
> >>> clearly there is the vpnc, openvpn, l2tp and pptp recipes, but what else
> >>> and what licenses are they under.
> >> 
> >> I don't think we necessarily want openvpn, l2tpd and suchlike in
> >> oe-core.  None of those things seem very "core" to me (in an embedded
> >> context) and testing them seems like it would be a bit of a challenge.
> > 
> > I agree, these don't belong in OE-Core. We already have them in meta-
> > networking.
> 
> This is what I get for replying to an email while traveling overseas and
> not being 100% clear about my points.
> 
> I was more interested in the dependencies then actually thinking about
> including them in OE-Core,that was not my intent.
> 
> This would would allow us to better understand if those recipes not in
> meta-networking could be moved from meta-oe to meta-networking.
> Currently, I think vpnc and pptp are in meta-networking, not the other 2.

They are all in meta-networking (xl2tpd, pptp-linux and vpnc have always been 
there, openvpn got moved in mid-April).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre