From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [209.85.146.183] (helo=wa-out-1112.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkeTw-0004h2-BH for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:33:04 +0200 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l24so205630waf for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.59.4 with SMTP id m4mr562265wak.1193223690278; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.254.11 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:01:30 -0400 From: "Cliff Brake" To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <20071024095844.GA9952@lenovo> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20071024095844.GA9952@lenovo> Subject: Re: [doc] defining OpenEmbedded X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:33:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/24/07, David Farning wrote: > Getting started is coming along nicely. Great! > In the second case referring to OE as a collection of metadata is > confusing. Metadata is data about the data. OE is actually a > collection of patches, task lists, and configuration files. I was > wondering if it would be more clear to refer to oe as either a ruleset > or task lists. The term metadistribution seems to be somewhat accepted: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Metadistribution In the most basic sense, a bitbake recipe is data about data (the source that needs built), so I think the term fits. Just my opinion. Cliff -- ======================= Cliff Brake http://bec-systems.com