Stéphane, if only one profile is using it it should go. X11 slow down all he build process and requires more work on each packages which depend (directly or indirectly) of a UX.
My proposition would be remove it from Common after the next quarterly release. Regards Dominig Le 27/05/2015 16:55, Stéphane Desneux a écrit : > Dear all, > > Today, I saw that the X11 repositories were removed last week from the > TV and Mobile profiles (NB: Wearable profile has still some X11 repos): > > https://build.tizen.org/project/show?project=Tizen%3ATV > https://build.tizen.org/project/show?project=Tizen%3AMobile > > This leads to some questions/remarks: > > * more than one year ago, when we started to develop Tizen:Common, it > was only for wayland. Then X11 has been requested, so we added X11 into > Common and made a huge work to have many packages build in both worlds. > Then finally, it seems that it's not needed anymore so we could drop > it... But every time we make such change there's a cost: many > configuration and packaging files must be changed, packages added or > removed, deps adjusted etc. Is there a clear visiblity on X11 status for > Tizen, now and in the future ? > > * the policy for a package to be in Tizen:Common is that it should be > required in 2 or more profiles. That's not the case anymore for X11 > packages: should I remove all X11 packages from Tizen:Common ? (if > visibility is not good, I'd rather keep X11 packages :)) > > * if X11 packages are definitively not needed, it would be efficient to > remove them from all OBS projects that don't need them (~100 packages > are 'pure X11' and could be dropped in every project) > > Thoughts ? > > Best regards, -- Dominig ar Foll Senior Software Architect Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
