On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 10:05 -0400, Philip Balister wrote: > On 07/31/2010 07:12 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 10:34 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > >> 2010/7/30 Koen Kooi<[email protected]> > >>> On 30-07-10 09:21, Esben Haabendal wrote: > >>>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Philip Balister<[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>>> On 07/29/2010 05:45 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: > > > >>>>>> I would actually advocate removing the 'world' feature from bitbake/OE > >>>>>> to stop people from wasting time on looking at bitbake world and have > >>>>>> them fix actual problems. > >>>>> > >>>>> bitbake world seems to be the source of pointless listserv discussions. > >>> Does > >>>>> it serve any purpose? > >>>> > >>>> Pointless or not really depends on how you look at quality. > >>>> > >>>> If you look at it as you, Koen and other OE long-timers, yes, it looks > >>>> rather pointless to have bitbake world. > >>>> But for those of us who have a different view on what quality is, then > >>>> bitbake world serves a purpose. > >>> > >>> As Thomas points out, as soon as you start blacklisting things (which > >>> actually increases quality), bitbake world doesn't work anymore. > >> > >> Blacklisting does *NOT* increase quality. It just hides the problem and as > >> such it is ostrich behaviour. > >> > >> Instead of masking the problem, better fix things. That is what improves > >> quality! > >> > >> For me a non building recipe is a sign of poor quality. > >> > >> BTW: to avoid the blacklisting issue, I've restarted my test with minimal > >> distro. > >> Results will probably be available after the weekend. > > > > "world" is used by Poky quite successfully. In Poky we expect everything > > to build with a known list of things that don't. Our aim is to have that > > list consisting of zero items and I intend to see that happens :). > > But Poky operates under different conditions than the main OE meta-data. > Since you more focus on what Poky builds, you do not need to support the > variety of recipes in the OE meta-data.
Totally. I was mainly responding to the "world is useless, we should remove it" comment and also showing that blacklists are used by others too, in general with success. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
