Hello Koen,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 29-12-09 16:15, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Why do we hardcode names of default packages in the "image.bbclass"?
>>
>> Now every image recipe that doesn't want these has to know the
>> variables it has to override.
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>> Shouldn't this be distro material instead?
>
> No, since these are things you want to be able to manage on a per image
> basis, not distro wide. I don't want to create a whole 'new' distro just
> to try mdev instead of udev or use tinylogin instead of shadow, etc.
> When we made that change we discussed what the default values for those
> vars should be and it was agreed they should provide sane defaults.
>
OK understood, apparantly we want to have a generic image base
containing udev, a login, shadow etc.
that is distro-indepent.

Can we remove that from the image class, and move into a
image-boot.inc or something?

Regards,
-- 
Leon

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