From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-we0-f175.google.com ([74.125.82.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T2MIJ-0005VH-1z for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:08:55 +0200 Received: by weyr6 with SMTP id r6so2530895wey.6 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:56:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=TmLTLskmLv1YVTzPb9XdEz7yWSUeZXab2LF9F4Y9w54=; b=n9yfbN6nIMUwtI42UCGOa9ztST7Qs9FmXlGA5jTAkAaBzfMAagYfKuUI1I8fYefrop nVuXqUq+86m/DbnlrpuM01BN4PLPm8YFLmkv0gkB73Y+GFIkV6NgP5sHeEyLLtMlGt5e j6i2v/6RGHjYLPPsyUEG0UDYhQBx4eCM8vzxp9rIv3HqW68fFxu4cWZuBxSgIdsJ45BZ fLy1Cv1n/SK8XGf83/qBWJrW6Om2WJ6brEsqdRh5Pjazl48KnJSKvicV0Z5xfh4rSHk4 40tjbCFei4gwrR87Sph1j/KnRQQoCEHh/QovA8+Wfqh2dEjW8Tx16skRfJ/ZppOjrA1y wVyw== Received: by 10.216.93.6 with SMTP id k6mr2690522wef.86.1345208216552; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([94.230.152.246]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w7sm9646086wiz.0.2012.08.17.05.56.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:56:53 +0200 From: Martin Jansa To: Paul Eggleton Message-ID: <20120817125653.GL3625@jama.jama.net> References: <3890692.qcbBpDRmfO@helios> <20120817123916.GJ3625@jama.jama.net> <5851541.vDHObiJJ2D@helios> <20120817125427.GK3625@jama.jama.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120817125427.GK3625@jama.jama.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove older GTK+ versions 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: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:08:55 -0000 X-Groupsio-MsgNum: 27717 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fDERRRNgB4on1jOB" Content-Disposition: inline --fDERRRNgB4on1jOB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:54:27PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:48:45PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Friday 17 August 2012 14:39:16 Martin Jansa wrote: > > > Should I file a but to fix DEFAULT_PREFERENCE between layers? > >=20 > > We've discussed this problem before - the trouble is we would have to c= hange=20 > > the way the version preference calculation works, and I'm not sure we w= ill be=20 > > able to do that without breaking assumptions that people currently rely= upon=20 > > in the process. By all means file a bug, but I think coming up with a p= ractical=20 > > solution is going to be tricky. > > =20 > > > Because there is also use case when newer development version is added > > > to e.g. meta-oe with negative D_P and only users who decide to test/u= se > > > that version should get it, if they define P_V for this new version. > >=20 > > This is also undesirable for meta-oe IMHO - as a general principle, met= a-oe=20 > > shouldn't be trying to both add additional recipes *and* provide newer/= older=20 > > versions of recipes that are in OE-Core. Please, let's get the new vers= ions=20 > > into OE-Core or if they're too risky/broken for some use cases for that= , then=20 > > they belong in people's distro layers. (Practically I don't think there= are=20 > > that many instances of new versions of OE-Core recipes that people want= to use=20 > > that would be actually rejected by OE-Core). >=20 > What if newer version is needed for recipe which exists only in meta-oe? >=20 > I had this in meta-efl where webkit-efl was sometimes segfaulting when > older stable version of libsoup2.4 was used, upstream solved that by > recommending development version of libsoup2.4, but as soon as I've > added it to meta-efl everybody (including users which don't use > webkit-efl from meta-efl - don't need this libsoup2.4) got it as > default. >=20 > Yes I could have added this libsoup2.4 only to meta-shr (where I had > P_V for that) and keep webkit-efl broken for everyone else, or try to > add developement version of libsoup2.4 to oe-core.. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D2964 --=20 Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com --fDERRRNgB4on1jOB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAuP5UACgkQN1Ujt2V2gBza8ACglr6B3ARPM0/3MYGCNCenCC0/ 4SYAoKSpRmjwvyGct1CYY3Y40quYibQD =W4AK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fDERRRNgB4on1jOB--