From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [194.158.229.47] (helo=smtp-be-02.be08.sunrise.ch) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N8Miu-0005SL-5W for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:35:39 +0100 Received: from [192.168.26.14] (212-98-43-140.static.adslpremium.ch [212.98.43.140]) by smtp-be-02.be08.sunrise.ch (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id nABNJM8f023804; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:19:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4AFB46E5.10700@vollmann.ch> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:21:09 +0100 From: Detlef Vollmann User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1257957370.25369.356.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1257957370.25369.356.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 194.158.229.47 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dv@vollmann.ch X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: OEDEM 2009 summary: DISTROs and FEATURES X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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, 11 Nov 2009 23:35:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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