Re: Documenting Poky dependencies

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 11/19/2010 04:38 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:54 -0800, Stewart, David C wrote:
>> Thanks for doing this!
>>
>> Some ScottR ARs below.
>>
>>> From: yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>>> bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Lock
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:36 AM
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been thinking about the issue of documenting Poky's dependencies in
>>> the handbook.
>>> At the moment the handbook includes a list of required packages and then
>>> explicitly lists commands to install those packages on Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to propose is that we list the required dependencies in
>>> the handbook and then link to a wiki page where we can list explicit
>>> instructions for various distributions.
>>>
>>> This allows us to document the process for as many distributions as
>>> possible without cluttering the handbook. An alternative would be to add
>>> this to an appendix but I quite like the idea of people being able to
>>> edit and add to this information without having to use git.

That makes sense, although keeping current Ubuntu and Fedora doesn't 
take much space and saves some large percentage (90%?) of our userbase 
from having to follow one-more-link to get the required steps.

I'd also like to see the sanity checker do a better job at listing 
package names rather than command names in a format that can be copy and 
pasted into an aptitude or yum install command. If done right, this 
would basically eliminate the need for any explicit list in the 
documentation.

-- 
Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel