Re: [PATCH] x11vnc: move recipe to meta-oe

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-10-16 09:29, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> 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 <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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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).
>
> The recipe being in meta-oe, can be used anyway. It is just out of OE-Core.
>
> Anyway, what x11vnc has to provide to a core system? it even requires
> X11 which a lot of embedded systems are moving away from...
>

Maybe for you, but not my customers - most of them insist on it.

Yes, x11nvc in meta-oe is an answer, but I don't want to have to
drag in meta-oe (way too heavy for my tastes) just to be able to
use it (I use it all the time to debug customer systems that I only
have remote access to)...

Maybe we should abandon Python or GDB (server) from OE-core as they
aren't used by all systems either??

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