From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A635770EC for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id D642CF811E0; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:21:10 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1ECF811E0; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:21:10 -0600 (MDT) To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <1445005527-2384-1-git-send-email-adrian.ratiu@ni.com> <56210C4A.2090400@mlbassoc.com> <20151016144408.GB2544@jama> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <5621160F.2020004@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:21:51 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151016144408.GB2544@jama> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x11vnc: move recipe to meta-oe X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:21:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-10-16 08:44, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 08:40:10AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: >> 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 >> >> 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. > > It was discussed in "[OE-core] [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH v2] meta-oe: > recipes-graphics: add libvncserver recipe" thread and I agree with > Otavio that x11vnc doesn't look so fundamental component used by most > embedded builds to deserver being in the core. Well, I tend to disagree and I don't think there has really been a discussion - only one "no" (Otavio) and one "I don't know" (Paul). -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------