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 17:52 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:03:04PM +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > Me too, in fact I think this image from the Yocto Project website
> > succinctly portrays the goal:
> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/sites/default/files/yocto-layers_1.png
> > 
> > Possibly less the meta-yocto but you get the point.
> > 
> I hope not as thats a truly horrible diagram.
> 
> I dont think there is anyway in modern linux to produce a nice neat stack
> like that. Once you move beyond trivial images.

The diagram is idealised but I think the concepts there are valid, for
example, bring in the meta-linaro layer to use the linaro toolchain,
bring in a BSP layer for a particular piece of hardware support and so
forth. Certainly, a developer is likely to have local tweaks in a layer
of their own on top.

Why wouldn't that work?

Cheers,

Richard