[Openembedded-architecture] bblayers.conf - Past, Present and Future?

[Trevor Woerner]

On Thu 2016-05-12 @ 10:24:45 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu 2016-05-12 @ 01:59:15 PM, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> ...
> > If you grab oe-core, a BSP layer, maybe meta-oe, and maybe a distro layer
> > you're using OE as an image creation tool. That's exactly how I've been using
> > it up to this point. Is that wrong? Is that a bad thing?
> 
> A layer which breaks other SoC/machine is broken by design and should
> to be fixed. You should be capable of keep the BSP layers and build
> for any of the supported machines without issues. Distro layers are,
> of course, different.
> 
> It is not an easy task to ensure a BSP is not contaminating other
> SoC/board when included, but it should be fixed. We should not need to
> enable/disable them for a build to succeed.

I'm afraid my point may have been lost or overlooked.

I think there's a growing distance between those who use the components of The
Yocto Project as an image creation tool and those who use them to build a
distribution.

I don't think either use-case is wrong.