On Wednesday 15 August 2012 12:17:40 Jack Mitchell wrote: > > 1) Do we rename "task" to something a little more understandable to the > > uninitiated, such as "package group"? The word "task" is already used in a > > much more natural sense within bitbake as a unit of work. Historically I > > believe we picked up this term from Debian but I'm not aware of > > significant use by other mainstream distributions. > > Do the 'tasks' do anything other than specify meta-data groups? If they > don't include any glue or additional processes then I strongly agree > that the name should be changed.
They don't, no. Usually they are just lists of packages, although sometimes there is some very basic logic to conditionally include/exclude some packages based on DISTRO_FEATURES, MACHINE_FEATURES, COMBINED_FEATURES etc. or allow substitution of default packages with others using variables. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
