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

[Joshua Lock]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 20:23 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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).

I don't disagree with the need for a GUI in the core, my only concern is
that we'll have old/deprecated libraries in oe-core unless we find some
time to update Sato a bit.

Note: this is still on my To Do but isn't as high a priority as I might
like.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre