Re: [PATCH] Revert "kmod: Use base_libdir for installing libkmod"

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

On Thursday 17 May 2012 19:11:20 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 May 2012 18:51:05 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> It is important to state that if OE-Core breaks Meta-OE this is
> >> crticial. It is not Yocto that people use and many active contributors
> >> use Meta-OE so it is important and critical to that people. Seems more
> >> health to the project to give the deserved value to Meta-OE instead of
> >> badmouth it...
> > 
> > The sooner people can start using it without fear of it doing unexpected
> > things, the sooner people will be able to have more confidence in it and
> > stop making negative comments about it. As it stands the way a lot of
> > people treat meta-oe is a source of recipes to be copied elsewhere
> > because they feel they cannot use the layer as a whole. I think that's a
> > big shame.
> 
> Agreed; the nice thing about Free Software is that we can do something
> about it; do negative comments help nothing.
> 
> Most people on Yocto do not contribute actively to Meta-OE. As
> example, you did 12 commits in total to it...

No, we don't, but that's probably because we have our hands full maintaining 
BitBake and OE-Core (with the help of others in the community, of course). Not 
to mention that when we do enable it on top of OE-Core / Poky without wanting 
to use systemd, it makes a whole raft of changes that usually cause breakage 
of some kind because that configuration is rarely tested. This just makes using 
and contributing to meta-oe harder.

We really do recognise that there has to be a source of recipes outside OE-
Core, and meta-oe is the current place for a lot of those. However there is 
just so much work to be done on BitBake and OE-Core that venturing into meta-
oe as well is something a lot of us don't have time for in our daily work, 
especially with its current state. I do use meta-oe when I'm building stuff at 
home but there I more or less have my hands full maintaining meta-handheld, 
meta-opie and a bunch of other things.

I hope during the current development cycle that I will have time to 
contribute to meta-oe further. I can't make any promises though.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre