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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x11vnc: move recipe to meta-oe
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On 2015-10-16 08:25, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> x11vnc can be configured with --use-system-libvncserver to use an
> external libvncserver which will be added to meta-oe. Since oe-core
> should not depend on meta-oe, we move x11vnc there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>

Just curious why not the other way - move libvncserver to OE-core?
x11vnc seems like one of the very few [and useful] X based tools that
are present in OE-core that it seems like a huge step backwards to
move it out.

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