Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [meta-arago] [PATCH] all: Remove excessive switches based on gpu

["Sapp, Randolph" <rs@ti.com>]

On Thu, Jan 26 2023 at 03:58:01 PM -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko 
<denis@denix.org> wrote:
> I'm realizing now that simply depending on "opengl" DISTRO_FEATURES 
> won't be
> enough, unfortunately.
> 
> The issue is that DISTRO_FEATURES are set by the distro globally for 
> all
> machines, whether with accelerated graphics, display w/o acceleration 
> or
> completely headless. E.g. when building for J7200, "opengl" will be 
> set, but
> none of the graphics packages should be built or installed into the 
> image.
> 
> So, some sort of check for MACHINE_FEATURES or PREFERRED_PROVIDER 
> (less
> elegant) would still be needed in some places...

Arguably that's a package group / distro target issue. I believe when a 
user selects the default image with all features enabled for J721E and 
J721S2 the package selection should be equivalent (or at least as 
equivalent as possible with the stuff going on now in meta-ti) to align 
with the distro features selected. I believe the solution to this is to 
add a headless target/image that removes Qt, GTK, etc. from the 
selected package groups and to suggest the use of that instead if users 
want a truly headless distro.