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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 apr 2011, om 19:41 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:29 +0200, 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?
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Hmm, still exists for me:
> 
> joshual at vorpal:~/Projects/Yocto/oe-core/meta-demoapps[master]
> $ pwd
> /home/joshual/Projects/Yocto/oe-core/meta-demoapps

Ah, I see why:

koen at dominion:/OE/tentacle$ find sources/openembedded-core/ -name "layer.conf"
sources/openembedded-core/meta/conf/layer.conf
sources/openembedded-core/meta-rt/conf/layer.conf
koen at dominion:/OE/tentacle$ 

it has no layer.conf :)