[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] psplash fixes
Philip Balister
philip at balister.org
Fri Dec 23 00:00:17 UTC 2011
On 12/21/2011 10:15 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2011 10:31:52 Philip Balister wrote:
>> I can see people taking an existing image, adding a few packages to
>> customize it for their application, and changing the splash image to a
>> product specific one.
>
> I'm not entirely convinced this workflow makes sense when you're interested in
> getting reproducible product images. This is basically the "take some existing
> distro and hack it up until it fits" approach which taken past a certain point
> leads to an unmaintainable mess, or at the very least regressions.
>
> People really ought to be able to produce their final images from the metadata
> with no additional post-build changes (or at least none that are manual). If
> that's too difficult, that's the problem I think is most worthwhile to attack,
> even if it requires more work on our part.
Well, I can see people wanting to do this. It falls into the case of the
customer is always right, even when he is wrong :)
Philip
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