Minimal distro (was: fakeroot fails to build)

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey@vanille-media.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 09:14 -0600 schrieb Mike (mwester):
> So it sounds like there's not a libtool problem; rather I need to
> upgrade to the new libtool entirely then. :-(   That's unfortunate,
> really unfortunate timing -- but timing is not an OE issue. :-(

Sorry about that. I guess we really need a new stable branch.

> (BTW, the reason libtool got locked down for me is because it made
> pkgconfig fail to build, so I might be back with questions on how to
> make that work if that failure still exists.)

Try with pkgconfig 0.23, it works with the new libtool.

> ((Also, are there any non-angstrom distros still left in OE, besides
> SlugOS?  I really feel like I'm swimming upstream all the time with OE
> -- things break for me so often that just don't seem to affect anyone
> else...))

I seriously want to revitalize the 'minimal' distro, that's why I have
started to do some (invasive) work on improving / updating default
versions.

As much as I love Angstrom, I think it is dangerous only to depend on
one -- relatively complex -- distribution, since this hides all kinds of
bugs in our metadata.

Since my time slots to work on that is also pretty limited, I'd be very
glad if I could get some people on board to work towards this common goal:
Providing a distribution with minimal policies and default settings that
serves as a starting point for new distros.

Can I count on you?

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:M: