From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] avahi: Check for GPLv3 license and disable x11
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:20:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E77B21C.4050806@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0C53D3F-D82B-46D0-B173-D81B7BC791AB@dominion.thruhere.net>
On 09/19/2011 12:21 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> Op 19 sep. 2011, om 21:05 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On 9/19/11 12:55 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>> [YOCTO #1492]
>>>
>>> Since the non-GPLv3 build does not want gnome, which this will pull in
>>> by the default DISTRO_FEATURE x11 being set and enabling gtk for avahi,
>>> we filter x11 out of DISTRO_FEATURES here when INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE is
>>> set to GPLv3.
>>
>> If the avahi GTK UI app is needed when X11 is enabled, this should be a decent
>> enough way to work around the condition.
>>
>> However, I question if avahi should -ever- be producing the gtk component.
>>
>> From the investigation I did, the gtk component is something that helps with
>> discovering mDNS servers (either prompting the user or simply displaying status,
>> I'm not sure). Is this of use to anyone using oe-core? Otherwise I'd be in
>> favor of simply removing the X11 option from the avahi package.
>>
>> (I talked with Saul about this already on IRC.. he's concerned that we'd be
>> turning of required [by someone] functionality... I'm really not sure it is
>> required by anyone...)
>
> In OE classic the UI stuff in in avahi-ui.bb
Clearly, a better way to go, I think my patch will work for the short
term of 1.1 release, but for master moving forward I will integrate the
avahi-ui.bb recipe. We just don't have the time for a major recipe re-write.
Sau!
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-19 17:55 [PATCH 0/1] Fix avahi x11 dependency with non-GPLv3 Build Saul Wold
2011-09-19 17:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] avahi: Check for GPLv3 license and disable x11 Saul Wold
2011-09-19 19:05 ` Mark Hatle
2011-09-19 19:21 ` Koen Kooi
2011-09-19 21:20 ` Saul Wold [this message]
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