From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LoGJg-0004hf-Sc for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:10:12 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LoGHb-0006E9-0c for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:08:03 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:08:03 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:08:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:07:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fxgv44gn.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090322 Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <87fxgv44gn.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> Sender: news Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] angstrom-2008.1.conf: add PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/psplash -silence warning during parsing X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:10:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 30-03-09 13:47, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Koen Kooi writes: > >> On 26-03-09 01:10, Andrea Adami wrote: >> >>> +#Silence warning during parsing >>> +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/psplash ?= "psplash-angstrom" >> >> NACK, the 'psplash' package should get deleted and replaced with >> psplash-oe' or something. It was left in place to give people time to >> switch to the new way of installing branded psplash images. > > Hello Koen but I belive those are two different issues. > I added the virtual/psplash package to allow others to properly depends > on an alternative. Currently the only recipe using it is > initramfs-module-psplash but others may come. I don't think virtual/psplash is the way to go, but I don't have a better suggestion. > I fully agree that we should drop plain psplash recipe and have > people to use the branded one but I also think angstrom needs to > properly set the preferred version since it will then allow that > its users to use it without much hassle. Unfortunately this will end up with people spreading FUD like "can't change psplash logo in angstrom" just because they see that line in angstrom.conf. But then again, people are still claiming angstrom is bloated and minimal isn't when minimal is currently angstrom.conf with sed s/angstrom/minimal/ applied to it... regards, Koen