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 1QCzWR-00073F-47 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:26:39 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p3LJOFc2008584 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:24:15 +0100 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 07963-10 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:24:11 +0100 (BST) 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 p3LJOAlV008578 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:24:10 +0100 From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer In-Reply-To: <1303404025.9960.6.camel@vorpal> References: <8313867A-EA5C-473D-A82B-D8338186BF5F@dominion.thruhere.net> <201104211605.28351.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> <1303404025.9960.6.camel@vorpal> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:23:54 +0100 Message-ID: <1303413834.5518.361.camel@rex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Subject: Re: [RFC] Working toward a GNOME layer 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: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:26:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:40 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:05 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Thursday 21 April 2011 15:02:49 Koen Kooi wrote: > > > and possibly more. I would like to create a meta-gnome layer in the > > > meta-openembedded repository where new recipes get added and things from > > > meta-demoapps can get moved over into. Long term recipes-gnome in oe-core > > > should move there as well. > > > > > > What are your thoughts on this? > > +1 > > > > > From my perspective this sounds like a great idea. The only question would be > > how much of the "GNOME" libs would remain in oe-core as some of them are quite > > widely used outside of GNOME proper; however that can easily be worked out as > > these things mature. > > +1 > > My personal opinion would be that we start with glib & gtk+ (plus their > dependencies, i.e. pango, atk, etc) in core and move the rest out to a > layer. Do we move out sato as well? > I feel that Gtk+ is used by enough non-gnome software that it belongs in > core but others may disagree? I think it needs to be in the core as we need something there to test X/graphics and so forth. This implies we need sato and its dependencies there too though (which are thankfully minimal by design). Cheers, Richard