Re: [PATCH 2/3] classes/[gnome|gnomebase|mime]: enhance gnome related classes

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

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 11:27 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 9 nov. 2011, om 10:37 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 10:27 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> Op 9 nov. 2011, om 01:53 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:
> >> 
> >>> This patch pulls in the gnome related classes from oe-core which
> >>> adds extra packaging rules and functionality whilst modularising things
> >>> so that one can get a subset of gnome functionality without adding a lot
> >>> of extra dependencies.
> >>> 
> >>> These aren't an exact copy of the classes from meta-openembedded, notable
> >>> differences are:
> >>> * gnome.bbclass - I dropped the BBCLASSEXTEND
> >> 
> >> It looks that will break a number of things in meta-oe, why was it dropped?
> > 
> > Unconditionally BBCLASSEXTENDing everything gnome is a great way to hack
> > around build issues and create a convoluted dependency mess that isn't
> > really required. I'd much rather we try and minimise the amount of
> > -native dependencies to those actually needed.
> > 
> > Comparing our builds against other systems its becoming clear our
> > convoluted dependency trees are one of the areas we don't do as well and
> > it hurts performance :(.
> 
> The list of -native needed in meta-gnome:
> 
> bison-native
> cairo-native
> docbook-utils-native
> flex-native
> gconf-native
> gdk-pixbuf-native
> glib-2.0-native
> gnome-doc-utils-native
> gobject-introspection-native
> gtk-doc-native
> icon-naming-utils-native
> intltool-native
> libffi-native
> libidl-native
> libxml-parser-perl-native
> orbit2-native
> pango-native
> perl-native
> popt-native
> python-native

Many of which are not gnome bbclass derived recipes. I therefore think
it makes sense to put the BBCLASSEXTEND in the recipes where its needed
and not the core class...

Cheers,

Richard