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 1OUaCD-00020m-Ll for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:57:59 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUa7Z-0003b2-Kt for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:53:09 +0200 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 ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:53:09 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:53:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:52:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100701172428.3b2ac88e@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> <4C2D13AE.9030903@mentor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.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:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100611 Shredder/3.0.6pre In-Reply-To: <4C2D13AE.9030903@mentor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: USE flags mumbling 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: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:57:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02-07-10 00:16, Tom Rini wrote: > Koen Kooi wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01-07-10 18:24, Graeme Gregory wrote: >>> We already have BBCLASSEXTENDS which modifies ${PN} of a package and >>> can use overrides to change behaviors of recipes. >>> >>> Maybe USE flags could be implemented in a similar fashing. >>> >>> DISTRO_USE = "nossl nox11" >>> >>> EXTRA_OECONF_append_use-nossl = "--disable-ssl" >>> >>> ${PN} of the recipe becomes XXXX-nossl >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> Just that USE flags shouldn't be used if seperate recipes can solve it >> as well. > > If I may, I'd like to articulate what I believe to be the technical > argument behind this statement. > > One of the issues with some form of USE flags, and I believe this is one > of the big ones for Angstrom as well as any other public feed publishing > distribution is that having a single recipe that does different things > based on variables makes maintaining their feed (and allowing users to > publish their own compatible feeds) a nightmare. That's not what I'm getting at. If 2 *packages* can safely co-exist in the feeds *and* and image can choose which it wants to install USE flags artificially limit the choice. Example: opkg, nopkg-nopgp This extends to things like "shadow or tinylogin?" as well. regards, Koen regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMLYzLMkyGM64RGpERAqz5AJ0WYMyg9VkgKfHEz22ZWkXcX8ik0ACfdJir AzXGjeywXg5XnbtRIqXIEhI= =8aWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----