On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 06:09 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: > Holger Freyther wrote: > > For the sake of quality OpenZaurus, Familiar, OpenSlug - distributions > > that build on OpenEmbedded's MetaData - should not ship these packages > > but I'm not here to make any policy for these distributions. > > so its oe policy to add every application under the sun regardless of > whether its code is maintained and updated? and then hack in a nag > screen to tell users they shouldn't be using it, nor is the app > supported? why not just hack in a "donate to my paypal" dialog while > your at it?
Its OE policy to add .bb files for packages if provided with them. If its sensible to warn the user about known issues with a generated package, so be it. If the warning is worded appropriately, it might alert them the software is unmaintained and patches to fix it would be welcome. Its certainly better than nothing. Whether such packages are shipped is up to the distributions themselves. > So oe grows and grows until we all have to download such heaps of > metadata that we are drown in it? I think this is the least of our worries. Apart from the parsing issue which is known about and being worked on, extra metadata has little overhead. > a better method might be to dynamically download only the 'metadata' > thats needed for a certain configuration. If you understand how bitbake works, you'll understand why that isn't possible dynamically. It is possible manually and there are several examples (NSLU2 and poky spring to mind). Richard _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
