From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org,
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: RFC: meta-oe appends and overlayed recipes
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:35:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360622147.6793.78.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2760168.9kFd94gL1F@helios>
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 17:09 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> * meta-oe/recipes-qt/packagegroups/packagegroup-qte-toolchain-target.bbappend
> This is adding qwt to the qte toolchain. As far as I am concerned this is a
> distro policy decision - Qwt is a third-party library that is not part of Qt.
> I believe this should be moved to the layers for whichever distros want this.
>
> * meta-oe/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.8.4.bbappend
> * meta-oe/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded_4.8.4.bbappend
> These two add MySQL and PostgreSQL support to Qt and Qt/Embedded. I see this
> as a distro policy decision; these should move to the layers for whichever
> distros want this. FWIW, this is particularly egregious if you've already
> built Qt, then add meta-oe and find Qt is being unexpectedly rebuilt.
If these were implemented as PACKAGECONFIG options, then distros would
just need to set the appropriate PACKAGECONFIG for the package in the
distro config and we wouldn't even need the appends...
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-11 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-11 17:09 RFC: meta-oe appends and overlayed recipes Paul Eggleton
2013-02-11 17:50 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-02-12 8:38 ` Anders Darander
2013-02-11 22:35 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2013-02-12 9:24 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-02-12 13:10 ` Richard Purdie
2013-02-12 13:38 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-02-12 10:24 ` [oe] " Burton, Ross
2013-02-12 10:38 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-02-12 16:43 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-02-12 20:51 ` Burton, Ross
2013-02-12 21:22 ` Martin Jansa
2013-02-12 21:36 ` Burton, Ross
2013-02-12 21:40 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-02-12 21:53 ` Eric Bénard
2013-02-12 22:02 ` Burton, Ross
2013-02-12 15:50 ` Ross Burton
2013-02-12 16:44 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-02-12 16:53 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-02-12 19:19 ` Martin Jansa
2013-02-12 19:31 ` [oe] " Otavio Salvador
2013-02-12 19:32 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-02-12 19:51 ` Martin Jansa
2013-02-12 20:40 ` Marcin Juszkiewicz
2013-02-12 19:32 ` [oe] " Chris Larson
2013-02-12 19:59 ` Mark Hatle
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