Re: [PATCH 2/3] classes/[gnome|gnomebase|mime]: enhance gnome related classes

[Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>]

On 09/11/11 03:18, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 9 nov. 2011, om 11:35 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 11:27 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Op 9 nov. 2011, om 10:37 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 10:27 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>> Op 9 nov. 2011, om 01:53 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch pulls in the gnome related classes from oe-core which
>>>>>> adds extra packaging rules and functionality whilst modularising things
>>>>>> so that one can get a subset of gnome functionality without adding a lot
>>>>>> of extra dependencies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These aren't an exact copy of the classes from meta-openembedded, notable
>>>>>> differences are:
>>>>>> * gnome.bbclass - I dropped the BBCLASSEXTEND
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks that will break a number of things in meta-oe, why was it dropped?
>>>>
>>>> Unconditionally BBCLASSEXTENDing everything gnome is a great way to hack
>>>> around build issues and create a convoluted dependency mess that isn't
>>>> really required. I'd much rather we try and minimise the amount of
>>>> -native dependencies to those actually needed.
>>>>
>>>> Comparing our builds against other systems its becoming clear our
>>>> convoluted dependency trees are one of the areas we don't do as well and
>>>> it hurts performance :(.
>>>
>>> The list of -native needed in meta-gnome:
>>>
>>> bison-native
>>> cairo-native
>>> docbook-utils-native
>>> flex-native
>>> gconf-native
>>> gdk-pixbuf-native
>>> glib-2.0-native
>>> gnome-doc-utils-native
>>> gobject-introspection-native
>>> gtk-doc-native
>>> icon-naming-utils-native
>>> intltool-native
>>> libffi-native
>>> libidl-native
>>> libxml-parser-perl-native
>>> orbit2-native
>>> pango-native
>>> perl-native
>>> popt-native
>>> python-native
>>
>> Many of which are not gnome bbclass derived recipes. I therefore think
>> it makes sense to put the BBCLASSEXTEND in the recipes where its needed
>> and not the core class...
> 
> Exactly! I did a lot of dependency cleanup when importing them, so the situation isn't as bad as it was in OE classic.
> 
> Josh, what kind of test builds did you do for the meta-gnome recipes after moving the classes?
> 

I'm sorry to say almost zero.

Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre