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From: Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: OEDEM 2009 summary: DISTROs and FEATURES
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:21:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFB46E5.10700@vollmann.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257957370.25369.356.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com>

On 11/11/09 17:36, Phil Blundell wrote:
> e) DISTROs should be encouraged to minimize the number of unbound
> variables which the user is expected to set in local.conf.  As a general
> principle, the tuple of (MACHINE, DISTRO) should be enough to completely
> determine the build environment.  Extra user-frobbable switches will
> undermine the coherence of the DISTRO.
This ('build environment') could be misleading.
I'd say it this way:
  DISTRO defines what to build
  local.conf defines, how to build (directory paths, parallelism, ...)

   Detlef




      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11 16:36 OEDEM 2009 summary: DISTROs and FEATURES Phil Blundell
2009-11-11 18:30 ` Przemyslaw Wesolek
2009-11-11 18:40   ` Phil Blundell
2009-11-11 23:21 ` Detlef Vollmann [this message]

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