From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net (vms173013pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.13]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40ADE014DB for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([unknown] [108.45.150.102]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0ML50014SQ86LIJB@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for poky@yoctoproject.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:31:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66811201AD; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:31:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:31:16 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: Trevor Woerner Message-id: <20130412193116.GA3757@denix.org> References: MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: poky and OpenEmbedded (post-release) X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:32:08 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:07:00PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote: > Many thanks to Denys for pointing me to > http://openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core. You won't believe how > I've poured over that page and how many "lights have gone on" while > reading it (over and over). > > If poky started as a fork of OE but is now a distribution, wouldn't it > make sense to remove the "meta" directory from poky and simply have > people add openembedded-core as a layer (as they would any other > layer)? I believe that was suggested few times before (and other distros are doing exactly that - i.e. assembling their distros from layers), but Poky developers prefer their distro to be already pre-assembled for ease of use. Besides openembedded-core layer, there're also bitbake and meta-yocto inside Poky. It maybe confusing at first, but think of it as being pre-assembled from bitbake+ oe-core + meta-yocto and saved into a single repository. Well, at least it saves Poky from needing to provide setup tools to download and assemble different layers from different repositories. Otherwise you would need something like our oe-layersetup[1] tool for Arago or setup-scripts for Angstrom etc. [1] git://arago-project.org/git/projects/oe-layersetup.git -- Denys > Or am I going down the wrong path with this thought? > > Of course it might be confusing having, potentially, both an > openembedded-core and a meta-openembedded layer, but it seems like > having the "meta" directory in poky is redundant, given that it is > already its own layer in openembedded-core. >