On Tuesday 27 March 2012 11:07:55 Samuel Stirtzel wrote: > 2012/3/26 Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com>: > > On Monday 26 March 2012 14:55:40 Samuel Stirtzel wrote: > >> meta-kde has no mailing list, so I'm looking for a list to host the > >> discussion, any suggestions? > > > > Probably just the oe-devel list - if the volume of commits gets too high > > then we can look at splitting off a separate one. > > Do I need an official statement, and from whom can I get it in case?
I don't think any is needed (at least I don't think anyone asked for any of the other layers). > My assumption is that the initial request, that started this > discussion, was made with the idea in mind not to include any > "overhead" from meta-oe. > > Too bad it isn't possible to include only a subset of recipes from a layer.. > But it just looks like layers don't work like that. That's right, the layer is supposed to be used as a unit; which means those units are supposed to be kept reasonably small and focused where possible. meta-oe is the exception here, but we should continue to try to improve it. > > As an aside it would be interesting to know why KDE requires additional > > gif support from giflib when gif loading is already built into Qt (and we > > do enable it in our Qt recipes). > > The KDE gifloader code is from 2004. > It looks like this was a possible solution and it worked, so they kept it. Fair enough. > But since it is KHTML depending on giflib, KDE could replace it with > Webkit in the "future" (this is really old news). Right, I won't be holding my breath on that one ;) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto