[OE-core] [RFC] Working toward a GNOME layer

[Saul Wold]

On 04/21/2011 10:29 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> Op 21 apr 2011, om 18:40 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:05 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> On Thursday 21 April 2011 15:02:49 Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> and possibly more. I would like to create a meta-gnome layer in the
>>>> meta-openembedded repository where new recipes get added and things from
>>>> meta-demoapps can get moved over into. Long term recipes-gnome in oe-core
>>>> should move there as well.
>>>>
>>>> What are your thoughts on this?
>>
>> +1
>>
>>>
>>>  From my perspective this sounds like a great idea. The only question would be
>>> how much of the "GNOME" libs would remain in oe-core as some of them are quite
>>> widely used outside of GNOME proper; however that can easily be worked out as
>>> these things mature.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> My personal opinion would be that we start with glib&  gtk+ (plus their
>> dependencies, i.e. pango, atk, etc) in core and move the rest out to a
>> layer.
>>
>> I feel that Gtk+ is used by enough non-gnome software that it belongs in
>> core but others may disagree?
>>
I agree with Joshua here, I think that we need to keep some amount of 
core gnome libraries in oe-core.

>> Between meta/recipes-gnome and meta-demoapps we have a reasonable start
>> to a meta-gnome/
>
> Where did meta-demoapps go? It's not in OE-core anymore by the looks of it.
>
Still there for me.

>> I'd be happy to help with this layer.
>
> Awesome, do you have any objection to put meta-gnome into the meta-openembedded repo for the time being? Once we get better tooling we can move it elsewhere, of course.
>
Why not on git.yoctoproject.org? We already have the start of various 
meta-* layers there?

Sau!


> regards,
>
> Koen
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