From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Host dependency vs. -native packages balance
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:46:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195552013.6337.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1195540585.11106.5.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 07:36 +0100, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> Not having looked at the details of this bug, it seems like a good
> example of how more host dependency creep into OE.
>
> I think it raises two questions:
>
> 1. Where do we want the balance between dependency on host installed
> libraries and tools vs. OE provided -native packages?
>
> 2. How can we better handle or track the actual host dependency of
> current OE?
>
> The current situation is that some (maybe even most) host dependencies
> are discussed on the RequiredSoftware and OEandYourDistro pages. They
> are clearly not up-to-date and comments in bugzilla such as the one
> below are a bit harder to find.
Dependencies needed from the host system are those listed in
ASSUME_PROVIDED. If its not listed in ASSUME_PROVIDED, OE shouldn't need
it. If it needs something not listed, that is a bug.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20071119224008.CD638401CA7@tinman.treke.net>
2007-11-20 6:36 ` Host dependency vs. -native packages balance Esben Haabendal
2007-11-20 9:46 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2007-11-20 11:18 ` Esben Haabendal
2007-11-20 16:52 ` Richard Purdie
2007-11-21 10:26 ` Junqian Gordon Xu
2007-11-21 13:35 ` Esben Haabendal
2007-11-22 18:51 ` Paul Sokolovsky
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