From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NPhAn-0006RQ-ER for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:52:04 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NPh8u-0003TW-PH for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:50:04 +0100 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 ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:50:04 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:50:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:46:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: 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 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091220 Shredder/3.0.1pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: Move IMAGE_BOOT stuff into distro's? 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: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:52:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29-12-09 16:15, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Why do we hardcode names of default packages in the "image.bbclass"? > > Now every image recipe that doesn't want these has to know the > variables it has to override. > > Shouldn't this be distro material instead? No, since these are things you want to be able to manage on a per image basis, not distro wide. I don't want to create a whole 'new' distro just to try mdev instead of udev or use tinylogin instead of shadow, etc. When we made that change we discussed what the default values for those vars should be and it was agreed they should provide sane defaults. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFLOk5tMkyGM64RGpERAudNAJ4wC8aftgrdzk8BLa3FL2w7XC9l7wCfb9CN 2qCrG0DL86Qs+mPkB+yO9hE= =+T+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----