From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.68.91.202] (helo=xora.org.uk) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IVN5i-0005Mi-HC for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:56:54 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([::ffff:85.210.31.177]) (AUTH: PLAIN dp, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by xora.org.uk with esmtp; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:53:46 +0100 id 0006453B.46E79B0A.000033B3 Message-ID: <46E79AFE.9040304@xora.org.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:53:34 +0100 From: Graeme Gregory User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Task-base is big :( X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:56:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stelios Koroneos wrote: > True. > As more people start to use OE and as these people would be mostly > interested in "vertical" solutions (develop an app or add apps to an > existing distro without having to rebuild everything) i think we need to > have a closer look at the OE SDK vs build everything from scratch. > Having a "standard" toolchain availiable (and the way to use it) for people > that are not interested in developing distro's would IMHO provide additional > "user friendliness" and make OE an even more attractive solution. > I personally think this discussion is a clear example of why Koen's work on packaged staging needs to be finished. Just think how much faster you could build if all the system did was download and install these dependencies rather than build them from scratch. Graeme