A couple of weeks ago I ran an informal round of usability testing with the new Toaster build functionality. One of the major issues that surfaced was how difficult it is to identify the image recipes you can build, in between the massive list of recipes coming from the OpenEmbedded metadata index. It is important that the image recipes are easy to spot because those are likely to be the first point of interest for Toaster users.
The problem, as far as my understanding goes, is that there is no way in the OpenEmbedded metadata to tell those apart from other recipes. We could try and filter image recipes based on the image name (they often contain the string '-image-'), but that would not be completely accurate. My question is: would it be possible to introduce a variable to identify image recipes, I don't know, something like IMAGE_RECIPE = '1' or 'yes' (just a wild example), that could be included in recipe files to tell image recipes apart from standard software recipes, and that we could use in Toaster to filter the recipe list? Is it worth proposing this to OpenEmbedded, or there is no chance we'll get something like this through? Thanks! Belén -- _______________________________________________ toaster mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/toaster
