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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:40 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> 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.

Do we move out sato as well?

> I feel that Gtk+ is used by enough non-gnome software that it belongs in
> core but others may disagree?

I think it needs to be in the core as we need something there to test
X/graphics and so forth. This implies we need sato and its dependencies
there too though (which are thankfully minimal by design).

Cheers,

Richard