From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([93.97.175.187]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U52ES-0007ny-M7; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:52:23 +0100 Received: from localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r1BMeg7X004713; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:41:51 GMT X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at dan.rpsys.net Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Oj97irsEX4eV; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.3.10] (rpvlan0 [192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r1BMfgUo004922 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:41:46 GMT Message-ID: <1360622147.6793.78.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Paul Eggleton Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:35:47 +0000 In-Reply-To: <2760168.9kFd94gL1F@helios> References: <2760168.9kFd94gL1F@helios> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: RFC: meta-oe appends and overlayed recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:52:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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