Re: [RFC] recipes-efl inside meta-oe or meta-efl next to meta-oe?

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:40 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:19:31AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd like to import the EFL recipes Martin did from meta-shr into the meta-openembedded repo. Before I go bothering Martin about it, what would be the best place to put them?
> > >
> > > Inside meta-oe:
> > >
> > > meta-openembedded/
> > >        meta-oe/
> > >                recipes-efl
> > 
> > Can efl we layered directly on top of oe-core  ? i.e. without needing meta-oe
> > in that case its better to be an independent layer. otherwise I would say put
> > them under recipes-efl
> > 
> That is certainly not how I see layers being built up. I am expecting
> in future us to have things like.
> 
> meta-gnome
> meta-kde
> meta-efl
> meta-lxde
> meta-xorg
> 
> Obviosuly none of these is an independant layer of its own, and to make a
> complete system you will require a stack of layers with the appropriate
> recipes. This really is where the DISTROs come in as they select the layer
> mix they want.

I don't disagree, I would be interested to explore what would be missing
from oe-core to enable some of these to work though. If it is just one
or two packages it would raise some interesting questions.

Certainly having a requirement of depending on meta-oe might not be
necessary in all cases.

Cheers,

Richard