From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2RJ5-00050w-1h for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:53:17 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2NGpO2Y002291 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:51:24 GMT Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01806-04 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:51:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2NGpF6Z002283 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:51:15 GMT From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer In-Reply-To: <20110323154018.GI2224@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> References: <6CA3B184-AD05-4A9B-90CE-25AE38DECA39@dominion.thruhere.net> <20110323154018.GI2224@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:51:12 +0000 Message-ID: <1300899072.3018.30.camel@rex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Subject: Re: [RFC] recipes-efl inside meta-oe or meta-efl next to meta-oe? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:53:17 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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