Re: [PATCH 1/3] matrix-gui-browser: port from arago overlay

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:29:42PM +0000, Maupin, Chase wrote:
> > > I don't think that was Bill's message. It was simplicity. BSP
> > only layer, no
> > > supplemental apps, if not absolutely required.
> > >
> > > Your example with lmbench is not correct - BSP layer should be
> > simple enough
> > > to be used with OE-Core alone to produce a console rootfs image
> > with nothing
> > > but busybox.
> > >
> > > How about splitting meta-ti into:
> > > * BSP only
> > > * SGX graphics
> > > * DSP tools
> > > * WiFi etc.
> > >
> > > And then splitting meta-arago into:
> > > * Arago distro for TI SDKs
> > > * Supplemental apps
> > >
> > 
> > Need to get my "YES!" in here before everyone barfs all over the
> > proposal :)
> 
> I'm good with this.  I was also planning in meta-arago to at least put all 
> bbappends in a recipes-appends directory so it was easy to track the things 
> we are "tweaking" vs. the recipes.  Arago today is too much of a mix between 
> amends and recipes in my opinion.  I would even say that Tom's proposal 
> (from IRC) of splitting the arago distro and supplemental apps into two 
> layers would be a good idea so that other distros can pull our supplemental 
> apps if they want pretty easily.  And that way we don?t keep adding more 
> repos to manage.

Actually that was my proposal (and Bill's offline), but never mind :)

As of today's state of Arago - if you don't count recipes/ti, which was 
"untouchable" for some special reasons, everything else is quite clean with 
using amends everywhere possible! And our of all the people you should know 
this better.

-- 
Denys