Re: [PATCH] image.bbclass: Allow creation of meta-packages for images

["David Nyström" <david.c.nystrom@gmail.com>]

On ons 11 dec 2013 16:18:30, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 15:46 +0100, David Nyström wrote:
>> No packages were created for core-image-minimal et.c. which
>> is a known top level interface for Yocto/OE users.
>>
>> When installing from a repo, it would be good if these interfaces
>> were common. If not, users are left with
>> packagegroup-core-*, which names are not always easy to parse.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Nyström <david.nystrom@enea.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/classes/image.bbclass | 12 ++++--------
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> I'm not sure we can do this since there isn't one magic package group
> which represents a given image. The problem is it needs to account for
> IMAGE_FEATURES as well and I think this could end up confusing users
> more than helping them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard

Hi Richard,

Yes, the package contents may vary, but should this not be up to the 
distro to be able
to configure meta-packages with a common top-level api ?

I suppose we can create our own ALLOW_EMPTY meta-package recipes, where 
items are RDEPEND:ed,
which in turn mirrors the contents of selected IMAGEs.

DISTRO_FEATURES and in some degree PACKAGE_CONFIG also alters package 
dependencies,
and contents. I can't really see how this is different.

Br,
David