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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packagegroup-core-x11: split machine specific parts to separate recipe packagegroup-core-x11-server
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:37:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346974630.7493.39.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906233413.GB3487@jama.jama.net>

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 01:34 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:29:59AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 22:58 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > > * add new packagegroup-core-x11-server to SIGGEN_EXCLUDERECIPES_ABISAFE,
> > >   so that recipes depending on it are not rebuilt after every machine
> > >   swtich
> > > * allows to remove task-x11-server and task-x11 from meta-oe without 
> > >   loosing any functionality
> > > * be carefull with default XSERVER value which does not have 
> > >   xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard)
> > > * VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver_common which defaults to x11-common in oe-core 
> > >   and xserver-common in meta-oe's task-x11
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/conf/layer.conf                               |  1 +
> > >  .../packagegroups/packagegroup-core-x11-xserver.bb | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  .../packagegroups/packagegroup-core-x11.bb         | 16 ++-------------
> > >  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-graphics/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-x11-xserver.bb
> > 
> > This sneaked in with a load of other patches. I never meant to merge
> > this as I consider it broken.
> > 
> > Task packages are cheap and having them being machine specific imposes
> > little overhead. Splitting this into two just increases the parsing
> > overhead through the number of recipes and doesn't do much else since
> > there are still machine specific packages involved, all dependencies
> > still get built etc. so I really don't see the point of the added
> > complexity.
> 
> Yes task-* are cheap but if such recipe is in RDEPENDS of some other
> more expensive recipe then it's better when it's excluded from sstate.

Which expensive recipes RDEPEND on task/packagegroup recipes?

Cheers,

Richard




      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-04 20:58 [PATCH 1/2] packagegroup-core-x11: add upgrade path from meta-oe task-x11* Martin Jansa
2012-09-04 20:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] packagegroup-core-x11: split machine specific parts to separate recipe packagegroup-core-x11-server Martin Jansa
2012-09-06 23:29   ` Richard Purdie
2012-09-06 23:34     ` Martin Jansa
2012-09-06 23:37       ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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