On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Leon Woestenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Op 18 mei 2011, om 19:08 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven: >> >>> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:40 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: >>>> Problem I have is, I dont want udev in RDEPENDS which is added by >>>> task-core-boot >>>> and task-core-boot is added to DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS through >>>> default-distrovars.inc -> defaultsetup.conf -> bitbake.conf >>>> >>>> and my distro adds DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to its RDEPENDS >>>> as I think the variable is meant for distro's to define some extra >>>> stuff if needed. >>>> >>>> How should I solve this problem ? >>> >>> Well, what I did in micro-base-image was simply to not use >>> task-core-boot at all. But in your case I was thinking that you could >>> overlay that recipe with from your distro's layer and make it do >>> whatever you wanted. >> >> The fact that we have layers does not mean we need to follow the silo >> mentality you seem to prefer. If task-base in oe-core stops being usefull we >> should fix it, now play around in our own little sandboxes. >> > If task-base is getting less useful, removing it altogether (I found > the reasons mentioned by Phil convincing) should be at least > considered as an alternative. > > I am not sure why we should keep task-base as something generic --all > distro's have their own specific requirements and configurations, even > for task-base, so why not move this functionality into the distro and > out of oe-core? > > I never quite saw what task-base gained us on a netto basis, but I > think I am biased towards small tweaked images, so these are just my > two cents. >
there are certain common parts that can be abstracted and can be maintained in oe-core so everyone benefits from it and certain image specific parts can be done in distros. So keeping common parts in core would still be better IMO > Regards, > -- > Leon > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
