On 06/29/2011 09:50 AM, Anders Darander wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:24, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Op 29 jun 2011, om 00:41 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:
>>> If they are independent then may be the openssh recipe should be
>>> divided into openssh-ssh and openssh-rest so one can use openssh
>>> provided daemon or dropbear provided as they wish
>> Dividing the openssl recipe would gain us little and the gains would be only 
>> for the power companies since you'd have to build openssh twice to get both 
>> sftp and ssh. The decrease in build time for only sftp is neglible.
> Hm, speaking against what I've often been advocating (reducing build
> time by factoring out dependenies etc)...
>
> I think the simplest and most straightforward solution is to just
> split the packaging into
> openssh-ssh and openssh-sftp, where openssh-sftp packages just what is
> needed for handling
> the sftp-server in cooperation with dropbear. It could possibly also
> include the sftp-client if
> desired/needed.
>
> The openssh-ssh package could then depend on the openssh-sftp package;
> then there would
> be no difference today for the distros using the complete openssh package.
>
> I read the
>>> If they are independent then may be the openssh recipe should be
>>> divided into openssh-ssh and openssh-rest
> part as just splitting the package. But now when I re-read it, it could very
> well have implied creating two recipes; which I agree wouldn't be the best
> option.
>
The package in OE has been split for a long long time since I first
discovered about dropbear being about to use sftp-server.

Graeme


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