From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Samuel Stirtzel <s.stirtzel@googlemail.com>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Support of meta-kde for Poky
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:04:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4957795.ksloQYTPSH@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGiJk9drrBpokvymehivFzx=q_VSUudzeq-oxLBr4FiwrqCTjA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 27 March 2012 11:07:55 Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> 2012/3/26 Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>:
> > On Monday 26 March 2012 14:55:40 Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> >> meta-kde has no mailing list, so I'm looking for a list to host the
> >> discussion, any suggestions?
> >
> > Probably just the oe-devel list - if the volume of commits gets too high
> > then we can look at splitting off a separate one.
>
> Do I need an official statement, and from whom can I get it in case?
I don't think any is needed (at least I don't think anyone asked for any of
the other layers).
> My assumption is that the initial request, that started this
> discussion, was made with the idea in mind not to include any
> "overhead" from meta-oe.
>
> Too bad it isn't possible to include only a subset of recipes from a layer..
> But it just looks like layers don't work like that.
That's right, the layer is supposed to be used as a unit; which means those
units are supposed to be kept reasonably small and focused where possible.
meta-oe is the exception here, but we should continue to try to improve it.
> > As an aside it would be interesting to know why KDE requires additional
> > gif support from giflib when gif loading is already built into Qt (and we
> > do enable it in our Qt recipes).
>
> The KDE gifloader code is from 2004.
> It looks like this was a possible solution and it worked, so they kept it.
Fair enough.
> But since it is KHTML depending on giflib, KDE could replace it with
> Webkit in the "future" (this is really old news).
Right, I won't be holding my breath on that one ;)
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-26 12:55 Support of meta-kde for Poky Samuel Stirtzel
2012-03-26 13:08 ` Koen Kooi
2012-03-26 13:19 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-03-26 13:30 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-03-27 9:07 ` Samuel Stirtzel
2012-03-27 10:04 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
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