Re: Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail - user configuration

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 06/24/2013 02:37 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Philip Balister <philip@balister.org> wrote:
>> Showing how Poky (the reference distribution) is built would be a nice
>> way to introduce people to building their own custom distributions using
>> OpenEmbedded.
> 
> Totally agree, but I would relegate that to a separate effort. The
> main problem with diagrams like this is trying to squeeze in too much
> information in order to preserve completeness, at the expense of
> clarity. It would be more ideal to start with a very simple diagram,
> then move on to other diagrams to zoom in on pertinent detail. It is a
> delicate balancing act. In this case, I would say to put "how Poky is
> built" into the 3rd or 4th diagram in a series.
> 
> I'm glad to see this conversation happening!

I totally agree we drifted way beyond the initial discussion of the
figure. The key thought here is understanding how Poky differs from a
typical use of oe-core + other layers.

Philip