From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SAkXU-0006z3-7N for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:07:00 +0100 Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Mar 2012 08:58:04 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="123913023" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.12.49]) ([10.255.12.49]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Mar 2012 08:58:04 -0700 Message-ID: <4F6B4C0B.3030504@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:58:03 -0700 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer References: <1332339926-27043-1-git-send-email-s.stirtzel@googlemail.com> <4F6A2F2F.2090607@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH] giflib: Move to OE-Core 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: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:07:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/22/2012 02:41 AM, Samuel Stirtzel wrote: > 2012/3/22 Koen Kooi: >> >> Op 22 mrt. 2012, om 09:48 heeft Samuel Stirtzel het volgende geschreven: >> >>> 2012/3/21 Koen Kooi: >>>> >>>> Op 21 mrt. 2012, om 20:42 heeft Saul Wold het volgende geschreven: >>>> >>>>> On 03/21/2012 07:25 AM, Samuel Stirtzel wrote: >>>>>> * This move will allow the testing of meta-kde for users without meta-openembedded. >>>>>> >>>>> So what other layers are using giflib? >>>>> >>>>> Your suggesting that we need to have it in oe-core so people don't need to add the meta-openembedded layer when using meta-kde? >>>>> >>>>> I am just trying to get more data before making a decision. >>>> >>>> Let's put everything in oe-core! >>> >>> Otherwise it would require to maintain a redundant copy of giflib in meta-kde. >> >> I don't think you get the concept of layers and keeping non-core stuff out of oe-core. > > How can it be that libpng is core stuff and libgif is not? > libpng is in oe-core because it is used by other parts of oe-core (Sato, GTK+, Gthumb, Cups, ...). PNG is also more common that GIF because GIF had licensing issues in the past. Finally, as stated in other emails meta-kde has other dependencies on meta-oe, it's just the base bits that need giflib. So, no we will not move libgif into oe-core, please use the Layers as they are intended. Thanks Sau! >> >>> Alternative suggestions are welcome. >>> >>> >>> A grep shows that not many recipes depend on giflib: >>> - >>> samuel@s-stirtzel-linux:/work/oe-core/setup-scripts/sources$ grep -r 'giflib' * >>> meta-java/recipes-core/openjdk/openjdk-6-common.inc:DEPENDS = "giflib >>> libpng jpeg cups \ >>> meta-java/recipes-core/icedtea/icedtea6-native.inc: >>> freetype-native zlib-native giflib-native jpeg-native \ >>> meta-kde/recipes-kde-base/kdelibs4_git.bb:DEPENDS = "automoc4-native >>> strigi libdbusmenu-qt soprano shared-desktop-ontologies dbus giflib >>> attica jpeg libpng bzip2 libpcre perl-native" >>> meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/evas.inc:DEPENDS = "librsvg >>> eina eet freetype jpeg libpng virtual/libx11 libxext libxrender >>> fontconfig libfribidi giflib" >>> - >>> >>> Any reason against the move? >> >> The whole layering concept >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-core mailing list >> Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org >> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > > >