On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 10:33 +0100, Andrea Adami wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 7 November 2013 23:18, Richard Purdie >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +DISTRO ??= "nodistro" >> > >> > Wouldn't "oe-core" be a better name, considering that's what >> > DISTROVERSION becomes if DISTRO is unset? >> > >> > Ross >> >> >> Agreed, we already have DISTRO_VERSION = "oe-core.0" >> This sounds also the right name for THE default distro. > > I disagree and I feel quite strongly about this. OE-Core is not a > distro. The whole idea was that OE-Core should build with sane defaults > without any distro set. This is a dummy placeholder value and it really > does mean to say that no distro is set. > > We did put a value into the DISTRO_VERSION field so you could tell what > was being used but again its a placeholder. > > So in my view "nodistro" is clearer about what is meant.
yes I concur. change it to nodistro or distroless and please change DISTRO_VERSION accordingly as well to be called nodistro.X or distroless.X > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
